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Jim Carruth

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Email jimcarruth63@gmail.com

Local authority: Renfrewshire

Languages: English

Author type: Poet

Jim Carruth is an award winning poet and was appointed as Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 2014. His first book Killochries was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the year, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. His most recent collections are Black Cart and Blake Fire. He is an impressive reader of his own work.

Aberdeen; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

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