Andrew Philip grew up near Falkirk. He lived in Berlin for a short spell in the 1990s before studying linguistics at Edinburgh University. The North End of the Possible, his second full collection of poems, is due for publication on 15 April 2013.Rich in humour, imaginative reach and formal invention, it takes us deeper into the life of MacAdam—an enigmatic character from his acclaimed debut—and broadens out into poems of place, love and politics. This book asks how isolation, belonging and the land shape us. The Ambulance Box (Salt Publishing, 2009), Andrew's first book of poems, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Scottish Arts Council Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust first book award and the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for for Poetry. Andrew published two poetry pamphlets with HappenStance Press — Tonguefire (2005) and Andrew Philip A Sampler (2008) — and was chosen as a Scottish Poetry Library “New Voice” in 2006.