Gordon Meade

Sounds of the Real World Gordon Meade

Sounds of the Real World is partly a bestiary, where man and creature are "separated by nothing but a pane of glass". The sea is "a simmer in a pan" throughout, charting the poet's move from his native Scotland to inner city London. Gordon Meade is not just standing and staring at nature; these poems offer social commentary as well as candid reflections on relationships, memory and mortality. Gordon Meade is a Scottish poet who now lives in London. He leads creative writing courses for vulnerable young people, and 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 Fund Writing Fellow attached to the University of Dundee.