Gordon Meade

Gordon Meade (born 1957) is a poet.^[1]

Biography

Gordon Meade studied English at the University of Dundee and Newcastle University.^[2] In 1993 he was appointed a creative writing fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.^[2] He was also writer in residence for Dundee District Libraries.^[2]

Since 2000 he has led creative writing workshops for adults and vulnerable young children in drop-in centres and hospitals, as well as at universities in Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg.^[3][4] From 2008 to 2010 and 2011-2012 he was one of the Royal Literary Fund writing fellows at the University of Dundee.^[3][4]

Meade's latest work, Les Animots: A Human Bestiary, a book-length series of illustrated poems, was published in 2015.^[4]

Works

• The Singing Seals (Chapman Publishing, 1991) ISBN 0906772338
• The Scrimshaw Sailor (Chapman Publishing, 1996) ISBN 0906772737
• A Man at Sea (Diehard Press, 2003) ISBN 0946230781
• The Cleaner Fish (Arrowhead Press, 2006) ISBN 1904852106
• The Private Zoo (Arrowhead Press, 2008) ISBN 1904852106
• The Familiar (Arrowhead Press, 2011) ISBN 1904852297
• Sounds of the Real World (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2013) ISBN 0992648505
• Les Animots: A Human Bestiary (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2015) ISBN 0992648599
• The Year of the Crab (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2017) ISBN 0995738130
• Zoospeak: Poems and Photography (Enthusiastic Press, 2020) ISBN 1916113044 - Photography by Jo-Anne McArthur.
• In TRANSIT (Enthusiastic Press, 2022)
• Ex-Posed: Animal Elegies (Lantern Books, 2023) ISBN 1590566769 - Photography by Jo-Anne McArthur.