Gordon Meade is a Scottish poet who lives in Fife. Over the past twenty years or so he has divided his time between his own writing, devising creative writing courses for vulnerable young people and adults in a variety of settings, and reading from his work in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. He has been a Fellow in Creative Writing at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Writer in Residence for Dundee District Libraries, and a Royal Literary Fellow attached to the University of Dundee. The Year of the Crab is his ninth collection of poetry.
