Matthew Fitt - POETRY

Matthew Fitt is a prize-winning poet. His first poetry collection Kate o Shanter’s Tale includes his famous Kate, Matthew’s response to Tam o Shanter, and other well-loved poems like Jim Leighton, chic charnley and Clara. His poetry has been featured in the national press and on radio and in Scottish and international literary magazines. Matthew’s work was recently translated into Italian.

		schotten Chalmers, Cochranes, Cockburns, MacLeans, Weirs left the rain at leith and aberbrothock met weet snaw in the skagerrak’s mooth and flitted hoose and shore tae the baltic in hansa’s coorts, fairs and mercat touns where the chapmen unrolled their packs like souls the guid men o the guilds cauldly glowered, drave oot the schotten mang the jews and poles intil poland’s hert and centuries’ blood tae kythe as surgeons, teachers, brewsters o beer reckoners o five-year-plans – Czamer Czochranek, Kabrun, Makalienski, Wajer
Kate o Shanter's Tale and Other Poems Luath Press, 2003	Kate o Shanter's Tale and Other Poems - Audio CD Luath Press, 2003	from Present Poets, National Museum of Scotland

Matthew's poetry is also featured in:

5PX2 5 Italian Poets & 5 Scottish Poets   Torino Poesia/Luath Press, 2009	100 Favourite Scottish Poems To Read Out Loud   Luath Press, 2007	Addressing the Bard 12 Contemporary Poets   SPL, 2009	Chapman No 65, Summer 1991   Chapman Publishing, 1991	Sampark: Scotland Journal of Global Understanding, No 10 Sampark, Spring 2008
Rattapallax No. 13 Rattapallax Press, 2006	Twenty of the Best A Galliard Anthology Galliard, 1990	The New Makars Mercan Anthology   Mercat Press, 1991	Going up Ben Nevis in a Bubble Car MNew Writing Scotland, v. 18   ASLS, 2001	Scots Poems To Be Read Aloud Luath Press, 2001
Gairfish: Overspill Volume 9   Gairfish, 1995	Stepping into the Avalanche A collection of short stories and poems Brownsbank Press, 2003	Brownsbank An Anthology Biggar Musem Trust, 2009	Voyages & Versions Literature Across Frontiers Project Scottish Poetry Library, 2003	Scratching Poems & Prose, Seven7 Aberdeen University, 1987