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Chronology2007 Curates "The Possibility of Poetry: Migrant Press and the Book Arts in Britain", exhibition, British Library. Records session for Archive of the Now (mainly Earliest Spring Yet) 2006 Lute Variations, Earliest Spring Yet, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 (with David Miller); collaborates with Raymond Friel on new sister series to Painted, spoken, PS 2005 Lucky Day a Guardian Book of the Year; A BBC Radio Scotland Book of the Year; shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year. The Mechanical Word, series of five artist’s books with Karen Bleitz. Editor, Best Scottish Poems 2005, for Scottish Poetry Library 2004 Curates "Ted Hughes: The Page is Printed", exhibition, British Library; appointed Head of Modern British Collections 2002 A Boy In Summer; Frosted, Melted 2001 Starts Painted, spoken magazine 2000 Renfrewshire in Old Photographs with Raymond Friel; Last issue of Southfields; birth of daughter, Ellen 1999 Gift Horse, artist's book with Ronald King; Perfume & Petrol Fumes 1997 Hand Held ; Protests at small-press exclusion from Paul Hamlyn Awards. Wins right to enter. Wins runner-up award. 1996 Marks & Sparks sells out. 2nd edition published 1995 Founds Southfields magazine with Raymond Friel; Marks & Sparks published by Duncan Glen, Akros 1994 Poems in Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (ed. O'Rourke); Beyond Tragedy: The Novels and Plays of Neil M. Gunn, 1926-1941 [doctoral thesis, Strathclyde]; Co-edits anthology of Informationist poetry, Contraflow on the Superhighway with W. N. Herbert; Resigns from Gairfish; birth of daughter, Katie 1993 Sense and a Minor Fever, Tube Shelter Perspective 1991 The Fabulous Matter of Fact: Neil M. Gunn's Poetics; Founds Vennel Press with Leona Medlin to publish Donny O'Rourke's Second Cities: books by Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and others follow 1990 Marries Jackie Canning 1989 Founds magazine Gairfish with W. N. Herbert, with first issue published the following year 1988 Wins Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities Creative Writing Competition;Meets Donny O'Rourke;Reads at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow with Robert Crawford, Gerrie Fellows, and Donny O'Rourke; Completes degree at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, English & Librarianship;Begins at British Library, London 1966-88 Renfrewshire 1966 Born, Reading, England; Moves with family to Scotland same year
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