Graham Fulton

Graham Fulton is a poet, originally from Hampton in England but who has lived in Paisley since he was a child. After school in Paisley he studied for a Diploma in Art and Design at Glasgow’s Cardonald College. He first started writing and performing poetry in 1987 after joining Tom Leonard’s Paisley Writers’ Group, and his first major collection of poetry, Humouring the Iron Bar Man, was published by Polygon in 1990.

Fulton was a founding member of the Itinerant Poets performance and publishing group, and was joint winner of the Scotia Bar First of May Poetry Prize in 1992. Fulton ‘withdrew’ from poetry in 1997. Four years later he returned to the genre with the collection Ritual Soup and other liquids. His works include Reclaimed Land : A Sixties Childhood; Photographing Ghosts with illustrations by Hugh Bryden; and One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich. He is also co-author of Pub Dogs of Glasgow, along with photographer Reuben Paris.