Ken Cockburn is Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Library, where he has worked since 1996. For the SPL he edited, with Alec Finlay, the audio-CD The Jewel Box: Contemporary Scottish Poems. He was also project director for pocketbooks, for whom he edited The Order of Things: Scottish Sound, Pattern and Concrete Poems. His own poems are published in Souvenirs and Homelands and several anthologies. He lives in Edinburgh.