Join the Community
Being a part of City of Poets could help grow and define your work by accessing opportunities for you to lead groups, and as well as by participating in our program of workshops and tutorials. Additionally, people and organisations we work with will be able to appreciate and/or employ you.
Our registered poets are also entitled to 10% off membership to Society of Authors, the UK trade union for all types of writers (annual fees start at £78 pa). Society members receive unlimited free advice on all aspects of the profession, including confidential clause-by-clause contract vetting, and a wide range of exclusive offers, among them discounts with booksellers such as Waterstones.
We'd love to have you join us! Here's our information page on how to sign up.
Glasgow Poets
Laurie Goldie
written • performance • Scots language
parenthood, social justice, feminism, politics, silliness
Emilia Cooke
written • performance
longing, love, loss
Emma Bacon
written • performance
motherhood, nature, connection
Linda Jackson/Jaxson
performance • written • workshops • editing
travel, narrative, conflict, love
Herberth Cea
bespoke work • workshops • publications
identity, Spanish poetry, spirituality, social conflict
John Paul Murphy
written • performance • readings
social justice, philosophy, travel, nature
Ariel Blackwood
written • performance
pain, substance abuse, yearning for nature
Laura Cooney
written • performance
wide canvas includes motherhood & imagistic work
Allan H
written work
comedy, stream of consciousness, experimental
Patrick Druggan
anything
politics, science, nature, communities
Mike Logue
as yet undetermined
all sorts, but particularly landscapes
Ian Spring
readings
various
Ellen Harrold
written • editing • publishing
anatomy, nature, folklore, decay, interconnection
Sarah Luczaj
performance • workshops
coming soon
Jack Caradoc
written • performance • workshops
birth, death, the fiddly bits in-between
Al Fowler
performance • written • workshops
dark
Beth Frieden
performances • written • workshops
nature, family, immigration
Taz
currently the focus is on gaining confidence
general
Kirsten MacQuarrie
performances and workshops (online or in person)
eco-feminism
Kathryn Metcalfe
written • performance
ancestry, memory, nature,
Joe Logue
written • performance
disability, mental health, humour
Kirsty Louise
any opportunities
peace • love • harmony
Jordan Taylor
performance • written
motherhood, grief, relationships, mental health
Val Waldron
written • performance
personal to political, embracing satirical
Richard Jolly
written • performance • workshops
scientific exploration, the natural world, family
George Colkitto
written • tutorials • workshops
love; loss; depression; nature
Wilma G Stark
zoom • translation • editing
haiku; political; mental health
Jacqueline A. Smith
written • tutorials • workshops • readings
anything that inspires
Zakariyah
written • performance
health, identity, belief, nature, relationships
Helen Ross
written
Glasgow reminiscences • Scots - Glaswegian vernacular
Charlie Mitchell
written • workshops
conversational, abstract, fantasy
Roddy Scott
written • performance • workshops
general
Juana Adcock
written • performance • workshops
migration, geopolitics, eco poetry, relationships
Brian Hill
written • performance • multimedia workshops
nature, science, politics, art
James Sweeney
written
general outlook on life
Rachael Sylvia (Erotic Purity)
written • performance • workshops
romance; love; erotica, wildwoman/goddess; autism
Keeks Mc
written • performance • readings
Scots language, social commentary
Angela Yausheva
written • performance • workshops
displacement, introspection, inner strength
James Roberts
performance • written • workshops
place, travel, emotions, social change
Linzi Mitchell
written • performance • workshops
cyclical living, alternative systems, capitalism, love, dark
Miranda Castro
sharing work online
healing, personal growth, nature
Jennifer McCormack
written • performance • workshops
estrangement, post-industrial landscapes, hope
Eveline Pye
written • performance • workshops
Zambia, science, maths, climate change, childhood
Antje Bothin
written • performance • workshops
nature and wellbeing
Victoria McNulty
written • performance • workshops
class, motherhood, history, politics, love
Joelle Miller
written • performance
ekphrasis, embodied experience, eco-poetics
Miss Meditate
written • performance
Nature, astrology, astronomy, community
Greg Shearer
written • performance • workshops
social commentary, transformation, death, identity
Laurie Donaldson
written • workshops • performance
unexpected beauty, ideas, fearless change
Jo Gilbert
written • performance • workshops
Scots, mental health, spirituality, urban landscapes & culture
Ross McWhinnie
performance • bespoke • workshops
love, death, consumer culture, education (esp ASN)
Elaina Smith
written
life celebration, remembrance
Fiona Jane
workshops • performance • bespoke work
Queerness, Feminism, Belonging, Disability, Grief, Love
Joiner
performance
eclectic
Lorna Fraser
written • performance
asexuality, love and lack of it, history, mythology
Isabella
written • performance • workshops
Nature, women, sex/sexuality, emotion.
Jane Lewis
written
nature, political protest
Alasdair Watson
written • performance • workshops
nature, childhood, climate, sci-fi, politics, Glasgow
Judith Kenny
bespoke written work
domestic life • natural world
Ross Wilcock
workshops • performance • tutorials
diversity, queerness, mental health, romantic, lyrical
Peter Clive
written • performance
environment, science, social commentary
Eileen Farrelly
written • readings • workshops
memories, place, growing up/old, arts linkage
Stephen Durkan
written • performance • workshops
mental health, capitalism, insanity of modern life
Elisabeth Flett
all work options
psychogeography, hauntology, queerness, otherness
Finola Scott
written • performance
environmental, political, relationships
Stuart Paterson
workshops with all ages • performances • commissions
people & place, social history, current events
Lilian
written, performance, workshop co-hosting
loss • grief • occasions • spirituality •nature
Findlay Hickey
written, but open to persuasion...
places, people, occasional cats, instamatic work
Inayah Jamil
open to possibilites
mental health, nature, spirituality, love and heartbreak
Matthew Keeley
written • performance • workshops
grief, loss, memory, travel
Jessi Pyres
written • performance • workshops
gothic, real life
N. Chamchoun
written • performance • workshops
identity, feminism, family, love, inner peace
Jim Paterson
written • performance
Fitba, Scotland, aching
Hana M-S Raya
nothing presently
nature
Jon H O Eriksen
history, love, life
Gerry Stewart
written • readings • online workshops
Scotland, Finland, belonging, language/culture
R S Kendle
performance • written • workshops
identity, myth, nature, sexual assault survival
Edugie Robertson
workshops
ancestral links, personal transformation
Martin Goldie
written • performance • readings
the impact of rural & urban landscape on people who live there.
The Glasgow Spartan Poet
performance • written
addiction & recovery, spiritual & emotional journeys
Ash Burnel
written • workshops
feminism, visual poetry, kitchen table poetry, silliness
Meron McCardle
performance • written • workshops
queerness, identity, politics, belonging
Pip Adwin
readings • written • performance
humanity, existence questions, connections
D.B. Asher
virtual readings • workshops
love, loss, parenting
Dev Kornish
written • bespoke • science comms
change, science, hope, death
Nasim Rebecca Asl
written • performance • workshops
heritage, family, belonging, multi-lingual poetry
Hadley-James Hoyles
written • performance • workshops • festivals
nature, human psyche, exile
Andy Well
written • performance • workshops
romanticism, the past, hope, nature
Spencer Mason
written • performance • workshops
mental health, addiction, LGBTQ issues, nature
Lauren Morris
written • performance
life, funny and otherwise
Heather Meldrum
performance • workshops
politics and society
Charles Ross MacKenzie
performance
dreams, nature, flights of fancy, bewilderment
Nimaya Lemal
written • performance • workshops
the uncanny, love, 'infra-ordinary'
Joe Murray
readings • workshops • tutorials
wide and various
Fin Hall
performance • workshops
empathy, human rights, reaction poems, beat
Lise Mitchell Noble
written • performance • vocal practice
nature, spirituality, wellbeing, ancestral identity
Kim Flower
written • workshops • performances.
healing, life, awareness
Ruth Reid
written
nature, politics, life's meaning
Craig Andrew Robertson
anything
time • despair, • death • absurdity
Eilidth Hamilton
written • performance
anything, everything
John Marshall
performance • workshops
general, emotive, comical
Collective Inclusion
written • performance
politics, ethics, inclusivity, hope
Nadia Violette
written • performance • workshops
autism, mental health, equality
The Killie Poet
everything
football
James King
performance • workshops
Scots' language; Scotland; addictions; freedom & comedy
Thabo
performance
love, behaviour, belief
Nicola Kirk
written • workshops
nature, relationships, finding meaning in the mundane
Peter A.
written • performance • workshops
grief, love, art, recovery
Mandy Beattie
written • zoom workshops
spiritual, mystical, social commentary, nature
Suzy Berry
performance • workshops • written
veganism, Buddhism, nature
D J Brown
performance • workshops • film
metaphysical, jazz
Cat Cochrane
bespoke work • performance poetry
social commentary, Scottish culture, vernacular, humour
Grace Brimacombe-Rand
performance • written
memory
Laura Clark
written • performance • workshops
comedy
Taylor Strickland
written • performance • workshops
place, eco-poetics, translation,
Felicia Sabartinelli
performance, workshops, commissions
self-love/acceptance • family • New Age
Syeda Sadaf Zaidi
writing • performance • workshops
Identity, loneliness, memories, change
Max Scratchmann
performance
general
Chik J Duncan
written • performance • workshops
various, especially children's verse
Donald Goodbrand Saunders
performance • criticism • discussion
love, death, and all inbetween
Bobby Motherwell
writing • performance • workshops
love, life, loss, enlightenment
Morag Smith
written • performance • workshops
eco, urban, family, society
Karis Moffat
editing • written
general
Jim Ferguson
bespoke work • performance • tutorials
urban, lyric poetry, video poems
Carla Woodburn
written • performance • encouragement
radio, rhyming, humour, sexy, political
Esther Steed
performance
narrative through slam poetry, body image, spirituality
K A Watters
written • performance • workshops
queer love, mental health, Scottish pride
Priya Logan
workshops
nature, motherhood
Kirsty Crawford
written • performance • workshops
Matrescence, connection, identity, change, nature
Ria Bronte
performance
loss, connection
Michael Mullen
performance • bespoke written work
queer experience, identity, class, culture
Anne Sikking
editing • bespoke work • workshops
celebration of people & place; politics, exclusion/inclusion
Ada Valladares
bespoke written work
diversity and identity
Colette Reilly
workshops • group work
personal growth, reflection
Adam Burnel
individual tutorials • group work
exploratory, momentary insights, people, places
Vicky Hope
workshops • group work
wellbeing, personal relationships and nature
Gordon Powrie
performance • celebratory events
adult, irreverent, entertaining, a bedrock of pathos
Wulf Phoenix Steel
written • performance • workshops
reflection, understanding, self-worth, fight to be free