Marcas Mac an Tuairneir

Edinburgh-based Marcas Mac an Tuairneir writes poetry, drama and journalism in Gaelic and English. His forthcoming third collection ‘Dùileach’ (‘Elemental’) is expected from Evertype sometime soon, thanks to the Corona-virus. He won the Gaelic Poetry Prize at the Wigtown Book Festival in 2017, where he was shortlisted four times between 2015 and 2019. He is the poet in residence at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh. He teaches Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Open Learning.