As a full-time health professional I don’t often have the time to stand back and reflect on my professional practice and wider aspects of health related to working in the community, but the process of writing Glasgoscopy became a way of doing this over an extended period of time. After publishing the book I found…
Delighted to be reading from Glasgoscopy at Lighthouse Books in Edinburgh on 28th January 7-8pm alongside fellow Glasgow poets Julie Laing and Eloise Birtwhistle, whose pamphlets I’d highly recommend. The in-person event is ticketed (and requires a mask to be worn, see also accessibility information), or you can attend online. All welcome. The very next…
Great to see Glasgoscopy included in The Scotsman round up of books of 2025, alongside fellow Mirrorball poets Charles Lang and Eloise Birtwhistle. Also thanks to Kevin Williamson for choosing a ‘Room’ poem from Glasgoscopy for The Scotsman ‘poem of the week’ 06/12/25 – see below.
Glasgoscopy will now be launched on 3rd December, 7pm at The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TS. I’ll be in conversation with Dr. Gillean McDougall reading from the book and discussing the process of writing it to give an insight into the book’s background, structure and themes. I’m still in the process of…
The launch of Glasgoscopy tonight will be postponed, apologies for any inconvenience. Watch this space, or vickihusband on Instagram for news.
Coming soon to a bookshelf near you, Glasgoscopy will be published by Vagabond Voices on October 14th 2025, and is available to pre-order now. Launch date 12th November 7pm, at The Alchemy Experiment, Byres Road, Glasgow. In Glasgoscopy a community health professional takes the pulse of North West Glasgow, observes connections and disconnections between city…
A relative newbie on the block, Push the Boat Out, is an Edinburgh based poetry festival, launched just three years ago but already with a reputation for the quality and diversity of its programming, as the packed 3 days of events this year shows. I’m happy to be reading some poems at the St. Mungo’s…
I’m honoured to have been awarded first prize in the Health Professionals category of The Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine 2024. An anthology of all the 2024 prize winners will be available soon on the organisation’s website. ‘Non-essential poem‘ was written about visiting patients during the early days of the COVID19 pandemic in my…
Issue 19 of this wonderful poetry magazine, co-edited by Roy McFarlane and Jo Clement, is out now. You can buy a copy here and/or come along to the online launch on Friday 22nd December 6-8pm to hear a crowd of poets, including myself, reading our poems. Here’s the line-up: Vicki Husband/Ophira Adar/Moniza Alvi/Addison Williams/Kostya Tsolakis/Liz…
In 2021 Dr Gillean McDougall invited a group of 28 artists and writers to respond to the archive of Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow, founded as an asylum in 1843. The result is Writing the Asylum a collection of creative writing and artworks created by a talented bunch of people, which are incredibly varied in…
Over the past few years I have been writing about the city, its people and its health, loosely based on my work in the community as an NHS Occupational Therapist. The writing has evolved in many directions and the latest works are a triptych of text based pieces which form part of a series of…
Gutter is a literary magazine that has been around for a while but continues to impress with a team of editors and guest editors at the helm keeping it as fresh and vibrant as it’s always been. I was especially pleased to be included in the very first issue. I also remember when the late,…
I am very pleased to say that my new collection Men Who Repeat Themselves is ready for pre-order with erbacce-press. It will be published in six-… Men Who Repeat Themselves
St Mungo Mirrorball’s Verse Apprenticeship Scheme Clydebuilt in partnership with the Edwin Morgan Trust The Clydebuilt 15 Verse Apprenticeship Scheme… Clydebuilt 15: launch call
At this moment in time it felt particularly important to get it right, to deliver Les Beley’s words to the audience at StAnza International’s Poetry Festival in St Andrews as he couldn’t be here himself. In the car en route I’d switched off the radio, the reports of the bombing of a maternity hospital in…
Vicki Husband 