The youngest poet to win the esteemd TS Eliot prize for poetry is to be the new writer in residence at two of Scotland's leading higher education institutions.
The poet and artist Jen Hadfield will be joining the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Art as writer in residence.
The multi-award winning writer won the TS Eliot Prize in 2008 for her collection Nigh-No-Place.
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Ms Hadfield said she now wants to work with students and academics working in a range of disciplines and subject matter for the next ten months, and will explore both institution's archives for literary inspiration.
Previous awardees of the residency position include Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, Louise Welsh and Aonghas MacNeacail, and Ms Hadfield was selected from more than 150 applicants to the post.
The poet said: "I am hoping for a really busy year, there is so much going on at both places that I don't want to miss out on.
"The most important thing for me is that I am not just here for the students but for everyone at the university and the School of Art.
"I am really available for folk to come and get feedback on their work, on their creative writing, and I'll be hoping to come and dream up some projects as well."
On whether she will write some poems in the post, she said: "I hope so, I've not had the chance to write for while, but I have a lot of ideas."
The poet will host workshops and other events to bring together students and colleagues from both institutions.
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She said: "There will be so many archives and collections to look into. And I am very interested in the visual element to, and will be researching working in porcelain and other ideas.
"Reading people's writing - that is my job, and there are a lot of voices to hear - I really like to focus on the detail, such as a very focused attention on a single poem. The idea is that I am here to hear folk and help people as best as I can."
Glasgow University said that Ms Hadfield is "one of the most illustrious graduates" of its Creative Writing programme.
Ms Hadfield was born in Cheshire in 1978 to a Canadian mother and British father.
She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh and went on to earn an MLitt with distinction from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, tutored by Tom Leonard.
When she won the TS Eliot prize, the poet Andrew Motion said: "she is a remarkably original poet near the beginning of what is obviously going to be a distinguished career."
Her debut collection Almanacs, in 2005, won an Eric Gregory Award.
She has also received a Dewar Award to produce a solo exhibition of Shetland ex-votos in the style of sacred Mexican folk art, and won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012.
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Her most recent collection is Byssus, was published in 2014.
Ms Hadfield, born in 1978, will spend one day a week at University of Glasgow, and one at Glasgow School of Art, working with students and staff in any discipline or area on their creative work.
The post is funded by Creative Scotland, GSA and the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow.
Ms Hadfield travelled in Shetland and the Western Isles while she wrote Almanacs, with funding from a Scottish Arts Council bursary - a residency with Shetland Arts Trust followed.
She was also a reader in Residence at Shetland Library, having also been a Scottish Poetry Library Poet Partner at Shetland Library in 2007-10.
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