And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound

Morag Anderson is the 2023 Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland). Author of Sin Is Due to Open in A Room Above Kitty’s (Fly on the Wall Press, 2021), Morag’s poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Popshot Quarterly, The Scotsman, The Darg, and Beyond the Swelkie. The Scottish Poetry Library commissioned Morag to respond to the life and works of Nan Shepherd and Robert Burns. She was placed in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, the Edwin Morgan Trust Poetry Competition, the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems, and named Over the Edge Poet of the Year. She collaborated with three other poets on How Bright the Wings Drive Us which won the Dreich Alliance Chapbook Competition. She was featured poet at the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series, produced by the Emily Dickinson Museum, and the Yehuda Amichai International Poetry Festival in Galway.

'Poems that you want to reread several times. These poems are powerful and certainly don’t shy away from hard-hitting themes about womanhood. Emotions resonate loudly. These are poems to return to, to mull over, to digest slowly.' - Debbie Grieve