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Jim Mackintosh

Based in PERTH & KINROSS

Music

Jim Mackintosh is a Perthshire based poet, editor, playwright, producer and broadcaster who has published seven collections, edited four anthologies and translated one collection from Italian into Scots. He’s regularly exploring collaborations with musicians and dancers.
His book The Banes o the Turas was shortlisted as Scots Book of the Year in 2023 and awarded Scots Writer of the Year in 2024.
He’s the current Makar of the Tay BioRegion.
He’s currently producing a show Long Water Soft Shadows for Perth Festival of the Arts and also co- editing Ayont the Thistle to mark the centenary of MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
He’s also planning a tour of his collaboration Paper Bones with blues musician Gus Munro & trad musician Ali Hutton.

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