HUGH McMILLAN is a poet from South West Scotland, an award winner in several competitions including the Smith/Doorstep Pamphlet Prize, the Callum MacDonald Prize and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. He has also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Prize, the Basil Bunting Poetry Award and the Bridport Prize. He has been published and anthologised widely. His latest book The Other Creatures in the Wood has just been published by Mariscat. He has just finished a commission on contemporary visions of Dumfries and Galloway, for the Wigtown Book Festival.