About Stewart Conn
Stewart Conn has been called 'one of Scotland's most skilled and wide-ranging poets'. His work, with its distinctive rhythmic and lyrical qualities, has been widely published, anthologised and translated. Among its settings are the Ayrshire of his boyhood; Glasgow and Edinburgh where he has spent the bulk of his family and working life; the distinctive land and seascapes of the Scottish highlands and western isles; and regions of France and Italy. Time and again, though, its true arena is the human heart, as borne out by a steady probing of the fragility and interplay of our lives and affections—often illuminated through music and works of art.This is evident in his latest publications, Out of the Blue (2025), and Underwood (2022); while their predecessor Aspects of Edinburgh (2019)—a selection of his poems set alongside drawings by John Knight—was seen as 'a delightful, coherent, little paean to the city' (Lesley Duncan/The Herald). The most recent of his many Bloodaxe collections is The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems (2014). And as editor, his latest anthology is the stimulating Other Worlds: Scottish Island Poems (Polygon, 2022).
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