This poet has been around; his poems have too, from Canada and America to Scotland and Australia with many pit stops along the way. People war veterans, children, beer thieves and mythical killers. Animals there is plenty of space for bull sharks, angry turtles, mosquitoes and wolves. These are poetic cameos or vignettes of old age, anger, and crippling illness--- but of resilience and beauty too.
Tom Bryan (b. 1950) is a widely published poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. Born in Canada of a Canadian father and Scottish mother, he has lived for a long time in Scotland, working as Arts Development Officer in Caithness. He was a writing fellow, Aberdeenshire, 1994-97, and for the Scottish Borders 1998-2001. Publications include North-East Passage (1996), Wolfwind (1996), amd Wolfclaw Chronicles (2000). He edited Northwords 1992-97.