IAN McFADYEN
Poet & Writer
Published Poetry & Media:
1978 - Shortlisted and published in Sunday Times Poetry Competition. This poem was read on BBC2 by Martin Amis.
1986 - Winner of the James McCash Prize for poetry in Scots, Glasgow University
1986 - Four poems published in New Writing Scotland (later used by the SQA as a text for practical criticism)
1988 - STV, Recorded on In Verse, a series of programmes collecting readings from Scotland’s living poets. Produced by Michael Greive
1993 - 'A Mindin,' poem anthologised by The Michael Bruce Memorial Trust
1996 - Tom’s Boat and Other Poems, Collection of poems published by Peebles Arts Festival
1996 - Poem in The Kist/A'Chiste, the national project to provide material in Scotland’s threee languages for schools
1998 - Script for BBC Radio Scotland educational programme on Lewis Grassic-Gibbon's Sunset Song for senior school students, with accompanying notes. Produced by Gerda Stevenson
2000 - 12 poems publised in Jorum: Anthology of Scottish Borders Writers (ed. Tom Bryan), published by SBC Arts & Library Service
2000 - Scottish Poetry Library’s Holyrood Poetry Link Scheme, paired with the MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
2017 - Poem anthologised in 100 Best Scottish Poems for Reading Aloud publised by Luath Press
1990 - present - a series of theatrical reviews for local press (Peeblesshire News, Southern Reporter) e.g. of Tweed Theatre, Rowantree Theatre, Shakespeare at Traquair.
Review of Gerda Stevenson’s first book of poems in The Eildon Tree
Poems published Northwords
Poems and short stories publised in The Eildon Tree.
Shows & Theatre Productions:
1995 - 'Fringes of Gold,' Tweed Theatre
1997 - 'A Glamour of Islands,' Tweed Theatre
2000 - 'Tam Lin' (a show based on my prose version), Riddles Courtt, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2006 - 'As Long As We Both Have Wings,' in Neidpath Castle with friends from Tweed Theatre
2013 - 'South East by North West,' Peebles Arts Festival
2015 - 'The Greater Craftsman,' Peebles Arts Festival
2017 - 'Why the Birds Sing,' TradFest TradFest Dùn Èideann
Music & Song:
'The Beggar at the Gate' was given a tune and recorded by English folk singer Carolyn Robson on her album Dawn Chorus
Setting of Marion Angus' poem 'The Wild Lass' is now part of folk singer Elsa Lemaitre’s repertoire
Music for Tweed Theatre’s Fringe production of George Mckay Brown’s Olaf Isbister (5 star review)