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Title
Tom Leonard (1944–2018)
Date
2002–2003
Medium
bronze & concrete
Measurements
H 150 x W 30 x D 32 cm (E)
Accession number
EH12_GB_S009
Acquisition method
New Edinburgh Limited
Work type
Bust
Owner
Edinburgh Park
Custodian
Edinburgh Park
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
Tom Leonard / born in Glasgow in 1944, Tom Leonard has / made the city's voices heard throughout / Scotland, and beyond. 'If you don't treat / language seriously, you don't treat people / seriously': the consequences of this / statement are apparent in all of his work / notably that involving the transcription of Glasgow speech. Leonard's political, / aesthetic and linguistic concerns are / inextricable. His poetry contrasts different / voices, social classes, emotional registers, / philosophies. It is often funny but fiercely / so. He has been writer-in-residence in libraries and universities, and in the anthology Radical Renfrew, he trawled the Paisley archives to reconstruct the region's / literary past from the French revolution to / the First World War. His own work has / been collected in Intimate Voices (1984) and Reports from the Present (1995), powerfully presenting what Edwin Morgan has called / 'the authenticities and indignations which / have moved him to act and write' / Sculptor/ Alex Main BA Hons
