Raymond Burke

I have been a professional writer for over 20 years and write poetry, short stories and plays. I teach writing and drama to teenagers and adults. After being made redundant from engineering in the 1980s, I became a punk rock bassist then street performer and eventually an actor, which started my ongoing career writing for theatre. I was one of the team who created the Arches Theatre in Glasgow in 1991 under some old railway arches under Central Station and have performed and taught all over Europe. As far as qualifications go, I have a 1st class Honours in Scottish Literature from Stirling University and I am also a fully qualified English teacher.

In 2016, I designed The Metaphoric Table, a wallchart that presents the most important literary devices. The posters were originally published by the Drouth and I wrote an accompanying article to explain the chart. Since then, I have delivered a series of workshops for groups in which I explain how the table can be used and give the participants a chance to try some of them for themselves.

(Works in Scots)