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Stuart Armour Brown Poet/Musician/Author

Stuart is a self-published Scottish/Canadian poet best known for his themed poetry series ‘Blood Red Text’ which documents the life and death of William Braemar, who, according to legend, was turned to a vampire in 1330 AD. Stuart was born in Greenock, Scotland on June 12th 1968, and lived in Gourock, Scotland until he emigrated to Canada in 1991, settling in Calgary, Alberta where he still lives today with his wife and two children. He began writing poetry in 1986, expanding his interest in writing song lyrics for local bands, which seemed like a natural endeavor which easily harmonized with his passion for music and illustrated artwork.. He would often use the collective works of artists like Boris Vallejo, Michael Whelan and Chris Achilleos as inspiration to write descriptive and colourful poems. Stuart employs a mostly free verse style of writing which has developed into a more complex, fantastic exploration into the macabre realm of vampires and the explicit worlds of sexual horror, as his subject matter tends to be non-tradition by design.

“ I am entertained by the grotesque and the unearthly, it’s an aspect of my personality I am very comfortable with.”

In the mid-1980’s Stuart found great satisfaction from the creative expression and emotion which poetry offered as he always felt like a social outcast while in school, and also with the untimely death of his father in 1987, poetry seemed to be the perfect outlet for distraction. Stuart’s themes and subjects have occasionally been compared to American writer/poet Edgar Allan Poe. Although Stuart has never researched historical poets or studied poetic writing forms his style is regarded as unique and remains uninfluenced and original. He still regularly follows his literary guidelines of visual inspiration with an infinite imagination, complimented with whatever music he feels is appropriate for his next publication to be creative and free from fixed meter, versification and rhyme