Scottish Writers’ Centre: In Process with Jim Carruth

Join Scottish Writers' Centre and poet Jim Carruth for a evening that looks at his life and work.

Jim is one of the founders and current chair of St Mungo’s Mirrorball (a network of Glasgow-based poets) and is the artistic adviser for StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. His first collection, Bovine Pastoral, came out in 2004 and was followed by five pamphlet collections, most recently Working the Hill (Mariscat, 2011) and Rider at the Crossing (Happenstance 2012). In 2009 he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and was the winner of the James McCash poetry competition. In 2010 he brought out Grace Notes 1959, a personal response to four classic and ground breaking jazz albums, and his work was showcased in Oxford Poets 2010. He was also the joint winner of the McLellan Poetry Prize 2013. As well as discussing his own poetry, Jim will introduce some of his fellow poets from the Mirrorball organisation and elucidate the outstanding contribution it has made to Glasgow’s cultural life.