Donald Adamson

Donald Adamson is a widely-published poet and translator, living in Scotland and Finland. He has translated Finnish poems for How to Address the Fog: Finnish Poems 1978-2002 (Carcanet / Scottish Poetry Library, 2005); also song texts for the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and for the World Music group Värttinä. His own poems have been translated into Finnish and Romanian.

He was co-founder the Scottish arts and literature magazine Markings. In 1995 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council writer’s bursary, and in 2014 he was awarded a translator’s bursary by the WSOY Foundation. He has been a prize-winner in several poetry competitions, and his poem ‘Fause Prophets’, which in 1999 won the Herald Millennium Poetry Competition, is buried in a time capsule under the walls of the Scottish Poetry Library.

His previous publications include the collections Clearer Water (Wider Eye Publications, 1996), The Gift of Imperfect Lives (Markings Publications, 2002) and From Coiled Roots (Indigo Dreams Publications, 2013).

(2014)