Garry Mackenzie

Garry MacKenzie’s second poetry collection, Firth, a portrait of the Firth of Forth, is published by The Irish Pages Press. His book-length poem Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain (2021) was shortlisted for a Scottish National Book Award. Garry has also published three pamphlets with Clutag Press and Wind&Bones, collaborated with various visual artists, and had his work adapted for BBC radio. He is a past winner of the Wigtown Poetry Competition and the Robert McLellan poetry competition, and his poems are widely published in journals and anthologies including Kathleen Jamie’s landmark anthology of Scottish environmental writing, Antlers of Water. In 2025 Push the Boat Out commissioned Garry to write and perform More Than a Substance, about marine plastic pollution, in collaboration with the filmmaker Sam Firth. He teaches freelance literature classes and leads the Creative Writing Summer School at the University of St Andrews.
www.garrymackenzie.com