Into Poetry’s First Book

Into Poetry is delighted to announce its first book publication, Gordon Meade’s Beyond the Ninth Wave: Selected Poems. The book gathers together the best of Meade’s 12 previous collections, with an additional section of new poems. You can pre-order the book here. 

Meade is a Scottish poet who first started to take his own poetry ‘seriously’ while recovering from a severe head injury which initially left him with very little memory or speech.

Water has been a constant theme in Meade’s poetry, as has the experience of a variety of non-human animals, whether encountered in the wild or in captivity. A more recent theme has been the poet’s own experience of Stage Three and Stage Four Cancer; its diagnosis, its treatment, and life with a terminal illness.

Into Poetry’s first-ever featured poem was ‘Earthworms‘, Meade’s moving account of childhood fishing trips in the company of his father. 

You can hear Meade reading the book’s title poem in this short video.

The book will be launched on 3 May in The Aurrie, Lower Largo, Fife, at 5pm. Tickets are available from eventbrite.