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Ken Cockburn is a Scottish poet, editor and translator, living in Edinburgh. He worked at the Scottish Poetry Library from 1996 to 2004, and has since worked freelance.

He has published four full-length poetry collections and a number of pamphlets, two collections of contemporary German poetry in translation, and has co-edited three anthologies of Scottish poetry.

He was the Arts Foundation Fellow in 2008 for Literary Translation. Retrieved 10 July 2024

Heroines from Abroad (Carcanet, 2018), his translations of poems by Christine Marendon, was shortlised for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Translation in 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2024

Collections

(2018) Floating the Woods, Luath Press, ISBN 9781912147335

(2014) The road north : a journey through Scotland guided by Bashō's oku-no-hosomichi, with Alec Finlay, Shearsman, ISBN 9781848613584

(2007) On the flyleaf, Luath Press, ISBN 9781906307189

(1998) Souvenirs and homelands, Scottish Cultural Press, ISBN 1898218935

Translations

(2018) Heroines from Abroad, poems by Christine Mardendon, Carcanet, ISBN 9781784106317

(2012) Snapdragon, poems by Arne Rautenberg, The Caseroom Press, ISBN 9781905821211

Anthologies

(2005) Tweed rivers : new writing and art inspired by the rivers of the Tweed catchment, edited with James Carter, Platform Projects and Luath Press, ISBN 9781905222254

(2004) Intimate expanses : XXV Scottish poems 1978-2002, edited with Robyn Marsack, Carcanet and Scottish Poetry Library, ISBN

(2001) The order of things : Scottish sound, pattern and concrete poetry, edited with Alec Finlay, pocketbooks, ISBN 18575479500748662901