Tom Pow
Home address:
Springfield, 29 Rosemount Street, Dumfries, DG2 7AF, ScotlandTelephone:
01387 268455Email:
tompowjstp@googlemail.comWebsite:
www.tompow.co.ukBRAW network:
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Tom Pow was born in 1950 in Edinburgh. He studied at the University of St Andrews, then taught for a number of years in Edinburgh, London and Madrid before settling in Dumfries in south west Scotland. Currently, he is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Storytelling at Glasgow University Crichton Campus in Dumfries. Three of his four full collections – Rough Seas, The Moth Trap and Landscapes and Legacies - have won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. As a writer for children, he won a further Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He has also written a travel book, In the Palace of Serpents – An Experience of Peru, and three radio plays. He has travelled widely in Russia, North America and Africa, giving readings of his work. He was holder of the Scottish Canadian Fellowship in 1992. In 2000 he became Scotland's first Virtual Writer in Residence for the Scottish Library Association and between 2001 and 2003 was the first Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He received a Creative Scotland Award from the Scottish Arts Council in 2007 for a project exploring dying villages throughout Europe.
About writer's work:
Throughout my writing life I have explored and exploited the tensions between being, of necessity, in one place and desiring to be elsewhere. Elsewheres. Each of my poetry collections is distinguished by this fact, containing domestic or where-I-am poems and others that play against them. These elsewheres could be landscapes – New York, South America, the Arctic or Africa – or they could be timescapes – the historical depths of South West Scotland, the Highlands or the troubled history of Europe. My work reflects an awareness of historical circumstance and an attempt to give it voice. Each of the poetry collections has presented me not only with new and challenging material, but also with formal demands. The same urge to explore has led me to other genres – plays, travel writing and children's novels. They too demonstrate the imaginative sympathy and range of my best work. The three young adult novels for example deal with the plague, a dystopian future and a contemporary kidnapping ordeal.
About writer's events and projects:
I am available (work permitting) to give readings and to hold creative writing workshops. I have a wide experience of working with all age groups over a range of genres.
Links to other websites:
www.contemporarywriters.comwww.saltpublishing.com
www.spl.org.uk/poets
www.dyingvillages.com (2008)
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
5-8, 9-12, Teens, AdultsBooks written
When preparing for his big party, Callum becomes so involved with the Scottish theme, that he starts to eat, talk, and dress like a Scotsman.
Even in his wildest nightmares, Martin could never have predicted what would happen when his family sign up for two day's trekking in the National Park during their holiday on the beautiful island of ...
Even in his wildest nightmares, Martin could never have predicted what would happen when his family sign up for two day's trekking in the National Park during their holiday on the beautiful island of ...
A powerful and thought-provoking novel from a new author. The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the deserted fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been ...
'Sparks!' is the record of a two-year creative correspondence between friends and fellow poets Diana Hendry and Tom Pow, during which they set each other challenging poetic problems, resulting in the ...
There's one thing - one very important thing - that Molly and Dad both know about polar bears that live on the Arctic ice, crocodiles with their whip crack tails, dinosaurs whose jaws could swallow a ...
A moving story about three street children, about cruelty, and neglect but also about the healing power of friendship and love.
"Who is the world for?" asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on ...
