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'''Graham Fulton''' is a poet from Paisley in Scotland.

<big>'''History as Poet'''</big>⏎
Scottish poet.

==Life and career==
'''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 1990s, and was an editorial board member of the ''[[West Coast Magazine]]''  which featured up and coming writers of the time including [[Irvine Wel(contracted; show full)ull 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. In 2018 he wasn't awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Fulton has always been an individualist, working outside the self-appointed back-slapping elite of the Scottish poetry establishment.

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


'''==Personal Life and Early Career'''==

Graham Fulton was born in Hampton, England. He moved to [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]] with
his mother and father, Jessie and Fergus, and older brother Gordon
in 1963. He attended Ralston Primary School and Camphill High School, which later became [[Gleniffer High School]],
in Paisley. After school he studied Art and Design at Cardonald College
in Glasgow. He was also one of the writers with punk Fanzine ''Stagnant Pool of Disease''
(contracted; show full)*Graham Fulton website  [http://www.grahamfulton-poetry.com www.grahamfulton-poetry.com]

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