Stewart Conn (born 1936) is a Scottish poet and playwright, born in

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.''Galaxy 2'' Maryhill Writers Group (2004) His father was a minister at Kelvinside Church but the family moved to Kilmarnock,

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in 1941 when he was five. During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked for the BBC at their offices off Queen Margaret Drive and moved to

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in 1977, where until 1992 he was based as

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Scotland's head of radio drama. He was Edinburgh's first

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in 2002–05.

Works

As well as several collections of poetry, his books include a collection of essays and memoir poems, ''Distances'' (2001), from Scottish Cultural Press. Most recently he edited ''100 Favourite Scottish Poems'' (SPL/Luath Press, 2006), a TLS Christmas choice, and ''100 Favorite Scottish Love Poems'' (Luath Press, 2008). He has won three

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book awards, travel awards from the Society of Authors and the English-Speaking Union, and the Institute of Contemporary Scotland's first

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award for services to literature. His collection ''An Ear to the Ground'' was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and ''Stolen Light'' was shortlisted for Saltire Scottish book of the year. A special issue of ''Chapman'' magazine was devoted to the work of Stewart Conn, April 1, 2007. ''The Breakfast Room'' won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards Poetry Book of the Year Prize in 2010.

Poetry includes

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* 1992: ''The Luncheon of the Boating Party''

* 1999: ''Stolen Light: Selected Poems''

* 2001: ''Distances: A Personal Evocation of People and Places'' Scottish Cultural Press * 2005: ''Ghosts at Cockcrow''

* 2007 ''The Loving Cup'' Mariscat * 2010: ''The Breakfast Room''

* 2012 ''Estuary'' Mariscat * 2014: ''The Touch of Time: New and Selected Poems''

* 2016: ''Against the Light'' Mariscat * 2019: ''Aspects of Edinburgh'' Scotland Street Press

Plays include

* '' The Burning'' (1971) * ''Clay Bull'' * ''Greenvoe'' * ''Hugh Miller'' * ''Mission Boy'' * ''The Aquarium'' * ''The King'' * ''Thistlewood'' * ''Under the Ice'' * ''Play Donkey'' * ''Herman'' * ''I Didn't Always Live Here''

Works

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