Edwin Morgan wrote across forms, themes, and languages and supported other writers to find their voices; it is with this spirit that St Mungo’s Mirrorball designed the Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship Scheme. Founded in 2007, the scheme provides intensive support for poets at an early stage of their writing careers, encouraging a greater dialogue between them and more experienced practitioners. Through a series of group and one-to-one sessions taking place over twelve months, the selected participants will be encouraged to develop not only their own writing style but their ability to critique others, as well as a portfolio of poems to showcase at the end of the programme.
St Mungo’s Mirrorball and The Edwin Morgan Trust are delighted to announce the Clydebuilt 18 poets. They will be mentored by Alycia Pirmohamed.

Katie Hart Potapoff (she/her), originally from Canada, is a Dundee-based artist, writer, and researcher. She holds a Practice-as-Research PhD from DJCAD, University of Dundee, for work which considers the attentive perspectives that emerge when elements of poetry, scholarly writing, and visual art are constellated with place-based responses. She has been published in Open Rivers, Consilience, and Katie’s poem-films were screened at DRIFT hosted by SSA and exhibited online as part of RSA’s 197th Annual Exhibition. Katie is currently a Poet in Residence at Dundee Botanic Garden, working on a project called Writing With(in) The Living Lab. http://linktr.ee/katiehartpotapoff

Endija Lukstina is a Latvian poet based in Glasgow. Their work has been published by sincere corkscrew press, Big Red Cat, Ambient Receiver, Avīzes Nosaukums, and is upcoming in Discount Guillotine. In September they will complete their MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. They are also a translator and co-edit Brackish, a DIY translation and poetry zine.

Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a Glasgow-based poet and writer, originally from Virginia. Meredith’s poetry is published in The London Magazine, Gutter, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Propel Magazine, and elsewhere, with reviews and criticism in The Adroit Journal, North American Review, Redivider, and elsewhere. Meredith is the co-founder of crisp packet poetry, and co-curates Glasgow’s DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE reading series. Their debut pamphlet is forthcoming autumn 2025 with ignitionpress.

Kate Millar is a poet, essayist, and music journalist from Edinburgh. She holds an MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City where she was awarded the Paul Violi Prize for Poetry, and an MA in English from the University of St Andrews where she received the Principal’s Scholarship and Lawson Memorial Prize for English Literature. Her work appears or is forthcoming in atmospheric quarterly, BOMB, Cutleaf Journal, Ekstasis, Gutter, LA Review of Books. and elsewhere.

