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Rab Wilson
Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the end of the Miners’ Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a ps...view moreRab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the end of the Miners’ Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predomi-nantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland’s leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper’s daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, the Burns an a’ That Festival and was a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival.view less