VickiHusband's first poetry collection ThisFar Back Everything Shimmers was shortlisted for the Saltire SocietyScottish Poetry Book of the Year award 2016. Vicki's poems have been widelypublished, broadcast on radio and read at international literary festivals andlocal libraries. Vicki has collaborated on translations with poets fromPakistan and Ukraine, and exhibited in visual-poetry exhibitions. MeanwhileVicki has worked as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS for over twenty-fiveyears, the majority in community rehabilitation.

"With thehealth of the city at its heart this important book chronicles the smallessential details of lives being lived. As we are led from room to room acrossthe city, the day-to-day challenges of morbidity are brought into sharp focusthanks to the clear-eyed vision and compassion of the writer. This is apowerful mapping of our times." - Jim Carruth, City of Glasgow Makar"Pitch-perfectpoems from the front lines of health and caring in Glasgow. There's much to admire in the precision,humanity and compassion of Husband's poetry; the images and patients sheconjures on the page will stay with you long after the final poem." Dr. GavinFrancis, author of Intensive Care, Recovery. The Lost Art of Convalescenceand Adventures in Human Being.