Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone in 1963 and grew up on his family’s farm near Kilbarchan. His poems have been widely published and anthologised and his debut collection “Bovine Pastoral” was runner up in the Calum Macdonald Memorial award. He is a powerful reader of his own work.

He is one of the founders and current chair of St Mungo’s Mirrorball the Glasgow network of poets and poetry lovers and is a committee member StAnza Scotland’s national poetry festival.

“Carruth is an unusual Scottish voice and, consequently a very distinctive one, a direct and clear poetic voice that is able without compromising his huge technical ability, to reach out and engage those who rarely, if ever read poetry”
The Herald

“His poems give voice with subtlety and compassion to the silent decline of dairy farming”
The Scotsman

“Jim Carruth is Scotland’s leading rural poet, an activist and farmer whose poems are moving testaments to a fragile way of life.”
Glastonbury Festival