Jim Carruth

Jim Carruth:  is the current Glasgow Poet Laureate and his first full collection, Killochries, published in 2015, was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, the Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry Prize, and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for first collection. He is founder and current chair of St Mungo’s  Mirrorball — the Glasgow poetry network — and artistic adviser for the St Anza poetry festival. His most recent collection Black Cart was published in 2017.