Stewart Conn

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Stewart Conn (born 1936) is a Scottish poet and playwright. Born in Glasgow and raised in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire he has lived in Edinburgh since 1977, and was the city's first poet laureate, under the title the Edinburgh Makar. He worked for several years as a producer for the BBC.

[edit] Poetry includes

• Stolen Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1999)
• Ghosts at Cockcrow (Bloodaxe, 2005).
• In the Kibble Palace (1987)

[edit] Plays include

• The Burning
• Clay Bull
• Greenvoe
• Hugh Miller
• Mission Boy
• The Aquarium
• The King