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Tom Hubbard

b.1950

Tom Hubbard © Roddy Simpson
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A native of Kirkcaldy, Tom Hubbard gained his first degree and subsequent PhD from the University of Aberdeen, and a diploma in librarianship from the University of Strathclyde. He was the first Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library, from 1984 to 1993, before leaving to take lecturing posts in the United States, France and Hungary, which have been followed by visiting professorships in the same countries in the 21st century. He was the Editor of BOSLIT (the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation) from 2000 to 2004, and worked on a bibliography of Irish literary criticism at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. In 2017 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies. 

Hubbard has an international outlook, which is reflected in his novel about Marie Bashkirtsheff (2008), and several of his collections, which comprise his own poems about Europe along with his transcreations into Scots of European poetry. Other publications include six poetry pamphlets; he has written, edited or co-edited several books of literary scholarship, and compiled or co-edited several anthologies of Scottish poetry: The New Makars: the Mercat anthology of contemporary poetry in Scots  appeared in1991, and Fringe of Gold: the Fife anthology in 2008. 

Read the poems

  • NECTABANUS
  • Scheherazade
  • Beaver
  • The Colourist
  • Fife Child in the Fifties

Selected Bibliography

Sax Sonnets in Scots (Glenrothes: The Scrievins Press, 1987)
Isolde’s Luve-Daith: poems in English and Scots (Kirkcaldy: Akros, 1998)
From Soda Fountain to Moonshine Mountain: American poems (Kirkcaldy: Akros, 2004)
Scottish Faust: poems and ballads of eldritch lore (Newtyle: Kettillonia, 2004)
Peacocks and Squirrels: poems of Fife (Kirkcaldy: Akros, 2007)
The Chagall Winnocks: wi ither Scots poems and ballants o Europe (Ochtertyre: Grace Note Publications, 2011)
The Nyaff: Scottish poems in English and Scots (Kelty: Windfall Boooks, 2012)
Parapets and Labyrinths: poems on European themes (Ochtertyre: Grace Note Publications, 2013)
The Flechitorium (Ochtertyre: Grace Note Publications, 2017)

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