Kara, Amy and Daniel’s Stories Friday, 12 February 2010
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Kara carries the poem “Dead Smart, One Of The Boys” by William Samson because “its about school & being naughty “
Amy carries the poem “Don’t Quit,” by Anonymous, writing “I like this poem cos it has good words in it and its good advice and its also true:)”
You can read the text of the poem here.
Daniel carries the poem “The 6 O’Clock News” by Tom Leonard. “It was a very funny and Scottish poem so i thought i would pick it.”
You can read the text of the poem here.
BIOGRAPHY – TOM LEONARD Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Posted by edincityoflit in Poets.Tags: Tom Leonard
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Born in Glasgow in 1944, Tom Leonard has made the city’s voices heard throughout Scotland, and beyond. Leonard’s political, aesthetic and linguistic concerns are inextricable. His poetry contrasts different voices, social classes, emotional registers, philosophies. It is often funny but fiercely so.
He has been writer-in-residence in libraries and universities, and in the anthology Radical Renfrew, he trawled the Paisley archives to reconstruct the region’s literary past from the French Revolution to the First World War. His own work has been collected in Intimate Voices (1984), Reports from the Present (1995) and access to the silence: poems 1984-2004’. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Find out more about Tom Leonard through the Scottish Poetry Library’s Poets A-Z.