Graham Fulton

Graham Fulton was born in 1959 in England but has lived in Scotland most of his life. He went to art college in the 1970s, got
into punk and post-punk music, co-founded a fanzine and formed
a band in which he played drums and wrote song lyrics. Another member of the band was Tommy Cherry who went on to form
cult psychedelic indie band The Bachelor Pad. This eventually led Graham to writing poetry in the 1980s and attending Tom Leonard’s writers’ group in Paisley Library where he met other young poets Jim Ferguson, Ronald McNeil and Bobby Christie. They published the pamphlet Tower of Babble in 1987. In the 1990s he was an editor of West Coast Magazine. His work has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, newspapers and online journals in Europe and the USA including Stand, Edinburgh Review, Ambit, Poetry Super Highway, The North and New Writing Scotland. Glitches of Mortality is his sixteenth full-length collection and The Testes of Lenin his twenty-fourth. Other publishers include Polygon, Smokestack Books, Penniless Press and Salmon Poetry. His poems have been translated into several languages including French, Spanish and Romanian, and his first non-poetry book The Paisley Civil War was published in 2018. His second non-poetry book The Renfrewshire Victoria Crosses will be published in 2023. He runs Published in Silence Press. He’s done hundreds of readings from Los Angeles in the USA to Barlinnie prison in Glasgow and the Morden Tower in Newcastle. He lives in Paisley with his wife Helen Nathaniel-Fulton who is a painter and published writer. When he’s not writing poetry he reads, walks, watches old movies and sleeps.