Stories, Poetry.. DVDs & Books

Tom Hubbard deploys the riches of the Scots language to explore that tragicomic space we call Europe. The poems are variously tender & mischievous in their treatment of our all-too-human foibles. The poems are also recorded on the CD included.

A literary scholar and poet who writes in both Scots and English. He was the first Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, from 1984 to 1992. Subsequently he taught at universities in Hungary, Scotland, France and USA. In the spring semester of 2011 he was the Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut.

Previous collections include:

-Four Fife Poets (with John Brewster, William Hershaw and the late Harvey Holton; Aberdeen University Press)
-Tak 5 / Tak 50 (a CD; with William Hershaw, Angus Martin, David C. Purdie and David Purves; Scotsoun)
-Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore (Kettillonia)
-From Soda Fountain to Moonshine Mountain: American Poems (Akros)
- Peacocks and Squirrels: Poems of Fife (Akros)

His non-fictional books are Seeking Mr Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, and the Pre-Modern (Peter Lang), The Integrative Vision: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Baudelaire, Rilke, and MacDiarmid (Akros) and Michael Scot: Myth and Polymath (Akros).

His novel, Marie B. (Ravenscraig Press), based on the life of the Ukrainian painter Marie Bashkirtseff, was long-listed for the Saltire of the year award.

Tom has also edited or co-edited many other publications over the past three decades.