Scotia Extremis by Andy Jackson and Brian Johnstone sampler

andy jackson was born in Salford, England in 1965, but has lived in Scotland
since 1993. His two poetry collections The Assassination Museum (2010) and A
Beginner’s Guide to Cheating (2015) were both published by Red Squirrel
Press, and he has curated and edited several poetry anthologies including Split
Screen (2012) and Double Bill (2014) for Red Squirrel Press, and Whaleback
City: The Poetry of Dundee and its Hinterland (with W N Herbert) for Dundee
University Press (2013). In 2015 he again collaborated with W N Herbert on
the New Boots & Pantisocracies poetry blog project, chronicling the uk in the
months following the 2015 General Election. He was Makar to the Federation
of Writers Scotland in 2017.
brian johnstone was born in Edinburgh in 1950, but has lived in rural Fife
since the 1970s. A poet, writer and performer, his work has appeared throughout
Scotland, elsewhere in the uk, in North America, Australasia and across
Europe. He has published six collections, most recently Juke Box Jeopardy
(Red Squirrel, 2018) and Dry Stone Work (Arc, 2014). His poems have been
translated into over a dozen languages. In 2015 his work was selected to appear
on the Poetry Archive website. His memoir Double Exposure was published
by Saraband in 2017. A founder and former Director of StAnza: Scotland’s
International Poetry Festival, he was a literary events organiser for over 20
years, co-founding Edinburgh’s Shore Poets and curating Cave Readings for the
Pittenweem Arts Festival in the 1990s. www.brianjohnstonepoet.co.uk
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