Scotia Extremis

About

ANDY JACKSON was born in Salford England in 1965 but has lived in Scotland since 1993. His two poetry collections The Assassination Museum (2010) and A Beginners Guide to Cheating (2015) were both published by Red Squirrel Press and he has curated and edited several poetry anthologies including Split Screen (2012) and Double Bill (2014) for Red Squirrel Press and Whaleback City: The Poetry of Dundee and its Hinterland (with W N Herbert) for Dundee University Press (2013). In 2015 he again collaborated with W N Herbert on the New Boots & Pantisocracies poetry blog project chronicling the UK in the months following the 2015 General Election. He was Makar to the Federation of Writers Scotland in 2017.BRIAN JOHNSTONE was born in Edinburgh in 1950 but has lived in rural Fife since the 1970s. A poet writer and performer his work has appeared throughout Scotland elsewhere in the UK in North America Australasia and across Europe. He has published six collections most recently Juke Box Jeopardy (Red Squirrel 2018) and Dry Stone Work (Arc 2014). His poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2015 his work was selected to appear on the Poetry Archive website. His memoir Double Exposure was published by Saraband in 2017. A founder and former Director of StAnza: Scotlands International Poetry Festival he was a literary events organiser for over 20 years co-founding Edinburghs Shore Poets and curating Cave Readings for the Pittenweem Arts Festival in the 1990s. www.brianjohnstonepoet.co.uk