Jim Mackintosh is the Cateran Ecomuseum’s Makar. A Perthshire based poet, editor, playwright and producer, he has published six collections, edited four anthologies and translated one collection from Italian into Scots.
Jim Mackintosh reading his poem ‘Accept the Awakening’ in 2021, photo Dylan Drummond
He is very active in a variety of poetry projects, both his own and collaborations with a range of musicians and other poets. He is a regular contributor to other publications and often features in literary festivals with a wealth of experience in a range of poetry themed activities such as workshops, poetry walks, and talks on his own work. He also provides support and champions the continued relevance of Hamish Henderson – of whom he has extensively written on – and the legacies of both William Soutar and Hugh Miller, of whom Jim is on The Friends committees of both.
Jim has been the Ecomuseum’s poet in residence throughout its first five years, and in this section, you can listen to him speaking the poems that he has written for the Ecomuseum during that time: