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About Pedalling Poetry

Writer Ellen McAteer is founder of Tell It Slant poetry bookshop in Glasgow, and Publishing Manager for the Poetry Translation Centre. She was General Manager at Poetry London magazine, a visiting lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art, and a mentee of the Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship Scheme, under Alexander Hutchison, as well as a singer with the band Stone Tape and a solo singer who won a BBC Radio competition with her song Blue Valentine. She was Director of the Poetry Trust, which ran the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, a director of the Scottish Writers’ Centre, a visiting lecturer at Oxford University's MSt in creative writing, and a member of the core group of performers at the Hammer and Tongue spoken word collective in Oxford. She is a qualified Librarian.

Trip Switch/Dark Man – published in Ape Magazine.

This is a dark man, spark man Angry like storms can. Flicker his eyes size you up and look for a crack in you. Irritable, nitty gritty, treading on eggshells – Crack and get slapped, smack! Open your mouth and … Continue reading

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This morning I…

watched the glitter of dew on the grass turn to the sparkle of glass on the pavement, and found Govan beautiful.

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Poem for the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

NAGASAKI 1945 (After an eyewitness account by Dr Tatsuichiro Akizuki) At 10.30 the siren sounded, at 11 o’clock the all-clear. Sticking a needle into a patient, I heard a drone as the plane, lost in the cloud, dropped her baby.   … Continue reading

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