Gordon Meade

Gordon Meade studied English at the University of Dundee and Newcastle University. In 1993 he was appointed a creative writing fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He was also writer in residence for Dundee District Libraries. 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. From 2008 to 2010 and 2011-2012 he was one of the Royal Literary Fund writing fellows at the University of Dundee. Meade's latest work, Les Animots: A Human Bestiary, a book-length series of illustrated poems, was published in 2015.

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