Carol McKay Blog
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Lanarkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | New collection 'One Last Tango' forthcoming from Seahorse Publications. Poetry Pamphlets 'None of This Makes Any Sense' and 'Reading the Landscape' out now from Hedgehog Press. My poem "Ceilidh" was chosen as one of the twenty 'Best Scottish Poems' of 2022 by the Scottish Poetry Library.Writer and former university teacher of creative writing through The Open University. Novels 'White Spirit' and 'Incunabulum' available now. Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, 2010. Shortlisted in the 2019 Dinesh Allirajah Short Story Competition. Co-wrote 'As I lay me down to sleep', a biography of Eileen Munro, published by Mainstream in 2008. My ebook 'Second Chances: true stories of living with Addison's Disease' was published by PotHole Press in 2012. Lover of all things wild and natural. Believe what Blake said, i.e. 'Everything that lives is holy.' |
| Interests | Trying to find the right words in English. And in other languages too sometimes. |
| Favorite movies | Not movies, but hooked on BBC Four series on a Saturday night. Spiral. Follow the Money. Montalbano. Last Wave. Also, Money Heist Netflix! |
| Favorite music | Enjoying M83 these days. And Tom Walker. But also Arvo Paert and Tavener. And as always, anything medieval. |
| Favorite books | Kirstin Innes, Jane Alexander, Vicki Jarrett, David Mitchell, Andrew Greig, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Anne Donovan, Rachel Seiffert, Jon McGregor's, too. |