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BiographyTom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950. After studies at the University of St Andrews, he taught English in a number of capacities in schools in Edinburgh, London and Madrid, before taking up a post at Dumfries Academy. He is currently Head of Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University Crichton Campus in Dumfries - the site of a nineteenth century lunatic asylum. With artist Hugh Bryden, he also runs the art book press, Cacafuego Press.
Primarily a poet, he is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Landscapes and Legacies, was published in 2003, and was shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has also written radio plays, a travel book about Peru, In the Palace of Serpents (1992), and books for children, including Callum's Big Day (2000) and Who is the World For? (2000), illustrated by Robert Ingpen, which won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award in 2001. Captives (2006) is a book for young adults set on a fictitious Caribbean island.
He has held various writing posts, including that of Scottish/Canadian Writing Fellow, based in the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and Virtual Writer in Residence for the Scottish Library Association's Scottish Writer's Project. He was the first ever Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival from 2001-2003, and Poet in Residence at StAnza 2005, St. Andrew's Poetry Festival.
Tom Pow was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary to write a book of poems exploring madness: Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness (2008).
His latest book, In the Becoming: Selected and New Poetry (2009), is a collection drawn from previous volumes together with recent unpublished poems.
Genres (in alphabetical order)Children, Poetry, Radio drama, Travel
BibliographyRough Seas Canongate, 1987 The Moth Trap (with wood engravings by Jonathan Gibbs) Canongate, 1990 In the Palace of Serpents Canongate, 1992 Shouting it Out: Stories from Contemporary Scotland (editor) Hodder & Stoughton, 1995 Red Letter Day Bloodaxe, 1996 Landscapes (with linocuts by Hugh Bryden) Cacafuego Press, 1999 Callum's Big Day inyx, 2000 Who is the World For? (with illustrations by Robert Ingpen) Walker, 2000 Landscapes and Legacies inyx, 2003 Scabbit Isle Corgi, 2003 Tell Me One Thing, Dad Walker, 2004 The Pack Red Fox, 2004 Captives Corgi, 2006 Transfusion Shoestring, 2007 Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness Salt, 2008 In the Becoming: Selected and New Poetry Polygon, 2009
Prizes and awards1987 Scottish Arts Council Book Award Rough Seas 1988 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary 1990 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award (shortlist) The Moth Trap 1990 Scottish Arts Council Book Award The Moth Trap 1995 TESS Educational Publications Award (shortlist) Shouting It Out: Stories from Contemporary Scotland 1997 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary 2001 Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award Who is the World For? 2002 Hawthornden Fellowship 2003 Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary 2004 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award (shortlist) Landscapes and Legacies 2007 Creative Scotland Award
Author statementPoetry has been, since the age of eighteen, how I explore what it means for me to be alive. It is my way of being in the world. However, if poetry has given me my most intense experience of language, I have also enjoyed the different challenges of a range of other genres - from picture books to art books.
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