Henry Marsh was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee in 1944, and died in 2024. His working life was spent teaching English – with a bit of philosophy - at the Edinburgh Academy. His Ph.D thesis (University of Glasgow) is a study of the modes of imagination.

 

Henry began writing poetry in 2000 following the death of a friend, a Gaelic Bard, Donald MacDonald of South Lochboisdale. Seven collections of his work have been published to date:

A First Sighting
A Turbulent Wake
The Guidman’s Daughter
The Hammer and the Fire

A Voyage to Babylon

Under Winter Skies

From the Lonely Shore

He has also worked with the artist Kym Needle to produce A Trail of Dreaming and Wayfarers, both collections of paintings and poems on Australian themes.

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Henry also published a collection of poems on themes from the Great Tapestry of Scotland, entitled The Bedrock.

He read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2008