About John
John Glenday is the author of four collections. The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets, 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; Undark (Peterloo Poets, 1995) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Grain (Picador, 2010) was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, The Golden Mean (Picador 2015) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and won the 2016 Roehampton Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published by Picador in 2020. Other publications include Mira (Coast to Coast to Coast, with Maria Isakova Bennett) and ‘The Firth’ (Mariscat Press, 2020). John is a highly experienced tutor and has facilitated numerous creative writing workshops and residentials including for Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre, the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School and the Banff Centre, Canada. He has worked for many years as a poetry mentor. He currently runs a walking and writing workshop for a mental health charity in Dundee.