Arts
Tom Leonard's Outside the Narrative (poems 1965-2009) won the poetry category in the Scottish Book of the Year awards 2010. His essays and political satires have been published as Reports from the Present, and his Places of the Mind is the only modern biography of the 19th century Scottish poet James Thomson. In 2001 he was appointed chair of Creative Writing at Glasgow University alongside Alasdair Gray and James Kelman. Leonard retired in 2009 and maintains a journal including visual work and comment on his website.