St Mungo's Mirrorball Showcase

Showcasing the best poets in the UK. Tonight J O Morgan headlines supported by Marion McCready and Vicki Husband.

J O Morgan lives on a small farm in Scotland. His works are each singular book-length poems, more in the epic tradition than the lyric, though utilising elements of both. Last year saw the publication of In Casting Off, ‎a "poem-novella" set in a remote fishing community. More recently still, this year saw the publication of Interference Pattern: "a collage of voices"‎ chosen as The Observer's Poetry Book of the Month.

Marion McCready lives in Argyll. She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award (2013) and the Melita Hume Poetry Prize (2013). Her debut poetry collection, Tree Language, was published by Eyewear Publishing (2014). Her next collection, Madame Ecosse, is due to be published Autumn 2016 also by Eyewear Publishing.

Vicki Husband’s poems have been widely published, included in an anthology of new Scottish poetry: Be The First To Like This, and have won prizes in the Mslexia poetry competition, the Edwin Morgan International poetry prize and The Pighog/Poetry School pamphlet prize. Vicki’s first collection is published by Vagabond Voices: This far back everything shimmers.