‘The Noises Men Make’
A Poetry Collection by Allan Gaw.
Publication: March 2025
Allan is a pathologist by training but a writer by inclination. His prose has been published in a number of anthologies, and he has won several national and international writing prizes, including the Alpine Fellowship. His novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize in 2024, and he has published three other novels in the Dr Jack Cuthbert mystery series. His poetry has been published by Dreich, Soor Ploom Press, Black Bough, SCAP, Tippermuir Press & RCPSG, and his debut collection entitled Love & Other Diseases was published in 2023 by Seahorse Publications.
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‘Tell me about the Broken Bones’
Debut poetry collection by Jen Dunn.
Publication: March 2025
Jen is a Psychiatry doctor and lives with her family in Dundee. She left her job as a Trauma and Orthopaedics surgical registrar to move into psychiatry and psychotherapy and she writes about the inner world, mental health, her Christian faith and psychoanalysis. She has been published in a number of Scottish and UK publications including Poetry Scotland, Dreich, Lighten Up, The Writer, Surgeon's News and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has won the Perthshire Writers poetry prize, the Society of Medical Writer's poetry prize and has been short-listed for the James Muir Poetry prize.
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