Each month we will be featuring a guest writer and this month's contribution is from Tom Pow. Tom is the author of two books of poetry - Rough Seas and The Moth Trap (both Scottish Arts Council Book Award winners) - and one book of prose - In The Palace Of Serpents: An Experience Of Peru (all Canongate Press). His third collection of poetry, R ed Letter Day, will be published by Bloodaxe next year. In October, Hodder & Stoughton published Shouting It Out, his anthology of specially commissioned Scottish short stories for teenagers. Pow's first radio play, The Execution of Mary Timney, about the last woman to be hanged in Scotland, was commissioned to celebrate ten years of Radio Scotland and was shortlisted in the original play category in the Writer's Guild Awards 1991. His second, Wilderness Dreams, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 last August. Tom Pow was the 1992-93 Scottish/Canada Exchange Writer.

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