Ken Cockburn

Ken Cockburn is a poet based in Edinburgh. His first collection Souvenirs and Homelands was shortlisted for a Saltire Award in 1998, and a second collection On the Flyleaf was published by Luath Press in 2007. He was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Literary Translation 2008, and has twice received commendations in The Stephen Spender Poetry Prize.Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Library, he has run countless poetry sessions for children and adults indoors and outdoors, in schools, libraries, museums, care homes and gardens. He also runs Edinburgh Poetry Tours, presenting guided walks with poems in Edinburgh’s Old Town.