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Graham Fulton is a poet from Paisley in Scotland.

<big>'''History as Poet'''</big>

'''Graham Fulton''' (born 8 January 1959) has been writing and performing [[poetry]] since 1987 when he first attended a writers' group run by poet [[Tom Leonard (poet)|Tom Leonard]]  in Paisley, which also included [[Jeff Torrington]], [[Brian Whittingham]] and [[Suhayl Saadi]], and was a founder member of the influential Itinerant Poets performance and publishing group, which featured Jim Ferguson, Ronald McNeil and Bobby Christie. They produced
the ''Tower of Babble'' pamphlet in 1987.

His first major collection of poems ''Humouring the Iron Bar Man'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/books/humouring-the-iron-bar-man |title=Humouring the Iron Bar Man}}, [[Scottish Book Trust]].</ref> was published by Polygon in 1990. Further collections include ''This'' (Rebel Inc, 1993), ''Knights of the Lower Floors'' (Polygon, 1994) and ''Ritual Soup and other liquids'' (Mariscat Press, 2002). He was joint winner of the prestigious Scotia Bar First of May Poetry Prize in the 19920s, and was an editorial board member of the ''[[West Coast Magazine]]''  which featured up and coming writers of the time including [[Irvine Welsh]] (short fiction). His work has appeared in numerous literary publications in both the UK and US, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and Scottish Television. He has been the recipient of three Scottish Arts Council bursaries.

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in Glasgow, was published in October 2011. A major full-length collection ''Full Scottish Breakfast'' was published in November 2011 by Red Squirrel Press and ''Upside Down Heart'' (featuring illustrations by artist Becky Bolton) was published in February 2012. A new pamphlet collection ''Speed of Dark'' was published in September 2012, and ''The Universe is a Silly Place'' was published in 2013.


Several full-length books then followed in quick succession. ''Reclaimed Land : A Sixties Childhood'', a storypoem history, was published by The Grimsay Press in 2013. ''Photographing Ghosts'' with illustrations by Hugh Bryden was published in 2014 by Roncadora Press, ''One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich'' was published by Smokestack Books in 2014, and ''Continue'' was published by Penniless Press in 2015. A selected poems collection called ''Edible Transmitters''(contracted; show full) about the Kilmartin Glen and Loch Craignish area of Argyll, is to be published by Controlled Explosion Press in 2018. Other complete new works awaiting publication are 2 new full-length poetry collections ''The Big Velodrome in the Sky'' (to be published by Red Squirrel Press in 2021) and ''Glitches of Mortality''. A collection about the death of loved one called ''Equal Night'' was published by Irish publisher Salmon Poetry in 2017. Another new 
book featuring long poems and sequenceswork ''Something Good Will Always Happen'' is being published by Penniless Press in 2018. ''Circulation'', a full-length collection,  was also is to be published by new Paisley-based publisher Clochoderick Press in 2018. 

In 2003 [[Edwin Morgan (poet)|Edwin Morgan]] was asked to make a list of what he considered to be the best eleven poems written by Scottish poets between the years 1978-2002. Graham Fulton's ''Cream of Scottish Youth'' was included on the list. The full list, and Edwin's letter to Ken Cockburn, can be seen in the book ''Edwin Morgan: The Midnight Letterbox'' which was published by Carcanet in 2015.

Always an individual, separate from the mediocre cliques and cronies and self-congratulatory nepotism the Scottish poetry establishment is full of. In 2018 he wasn't awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.⏎
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Graham and his wife Helen are currently in the early development stages of creating a musical called RILLINGTON! based on the life of serial killer John Christie. In 2014 they published a pamphlet together called ''The DTs'' celebrating 100 years since the birth of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

He's read his poems live from Los Angeles in the US to [[Barlinnie Prison]] in Glasgow to the [[Morden Tower]] in Newcastle.

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* ''Brian Wilson in Swansea Bus Station''  (Red Squirrel Press), 2015 {{ISBN|978-1-910437-09-4}}
* ''Paragraphs at the End of the World''  (Penniless Press Publications), 2016 {{ISBN|978-1-326-53275-8}}
* ''twenty three telephones''  (Controlled Explosion Press), 2016 {{ISBN|978-0-9573474-6-5}}
* ''Equal Night''   (Salmon Poetry), 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-910669-88-4}}

* ''Circulation''   (Clochoderick Press), 2018 {{ISBN|978-1-912345-02-1}}
* ''Something Good Will Always Happen''   (Penniless Press Publications), 2018 {{ISBN|978-0-244-96088-9}}⏎
==References==
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http://www.paisley.org.uk/famous-people/graham-fulton/

==External links==
*Graham Fulton, Poem: [http://www.grahamfulton-poetry.com/poems-past-publications.html#Poem-Humouring-The-Iron-Bar-Man Humouring the Iron Bar Man]
*Graham Fulton website  [http://www.grahamfulton-poetry.com www.grahamfulton-poetry.com]

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