John Glenday

John lives in Angus, with his wife Erika.

His work appeared in Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Poetry (Chicago), The Scotsman, The Guardian, Financial Times, Wascana Review, Ploughshares and Magma to name but a few.

He won the XE Nathan Prize in 1994 for After Versalius (from Undark).

John was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize for Excellence in New Poetry and for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2010 for his collection Grain.

His work is included in many anthologies such as the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (Faber and Faber 1992), Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century (Picador, 1999), New British Poetry (Grey Wolf Press, 2004), Contemporary poetry and contemporary science (Oxford University Press, 2006), 100 Favourite Scottish Poems (Luath Press, 2006), 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems (Luath Press, 2008), Being Human (Bloodaxe, 2011), Forward Book of Poetry 2016 (Faber & Faber, 2015) and Off the Shelf (Picador, 2018).

He was a judge for the 2011 National Poetry Competition, together with Jackie Kay and Colette Bryce.[1]

The Golden Mean won the 2015 Roehampton Poetry Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Prize.

His Selected Poems will be published by Picador in October 2020.

John can be heard in the Poetry Archive.

• Scottish Arts Council Book Prize for The Apple Ghost
• Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Undark
• Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Grain
• Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2010 for Grain.
• Shortlisted for The Griffin Poetry Prize 2010 for Grain
• Winner of the 2015 Roehampton Poetry Prize 2015 for The Golden Mean.
• Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Prize for The Golden Mean.

• The Apple Ghost. Peterloo Poets. 1989. ISBN 978-1-871471-05-2.
• Undark. Peterloo Poets. 1995. ISBN 978-1-871471-60-1.
• Grain. Picador. 2009. ISBN 978-0-330-46134-4.
• The Golden Mean. Picador. 2015. ISBN 978-1447253914.
• Selected Poems. Picador. 2020. ISBN 978-1529037722.

• "John Glenday"
• "Picador"
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography and video
• "John Glenday", Literary Encyclopedia
• "John Glenday's Grain", Scottish Poetry Library
• "Book review: Grain, by John Glenday". The Scotsman. 28 November 2009.
• "The Ugly", poem in The Valve, 22 May 2009
• "Tin", The Guardian, 14 November 2009