Gary Robertson (author)

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Gary Robertson is a Scottish poet and author from Dundee, self styled as the 'Dundee Street Poet'.

1 Biography
2 See also
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[edit] Biography

A fitness fanatic^[1], Robertson has previously climbed all 284 of the Munros^[2], and was the eventual winnner of the first series of the BBC television reality show SAS: Are You Tough Enough?^[3]. After self-funding the publication of SAS 11 Days In A Hell Called Paradise, an autobiographical account of his experience in the show, he went on to become a poet and author. He has so far focused on life for young people growing up in Dundee^[2], and on street poetry in the characteristic Dundonian dialect.

Robertson wrote the book Gangs Of Dundee^[3], an historical account of the gang culture that developed in the post-war Dundee housing schemes of the 1960s onwards^[4]. He later presented a program on BBC Radio Scotland on this subject^[5].

Robertson's street poetry was used^[1] in the short documentary Young Anes depicting the life of a struggling young mother in Dundee, which was shortlisted for the best short documentary award at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival^[6]. His first collection of poetry was printed in the book Pure Dundee^[7]. Along with Mark Thomson also from Dundee, Robertson is the other half of the Tribal Tongues poetry performing duo^[2]^[1].