Drew McCormack is a 65 year old semi retired teacher. He has been writing and performing songs for over 40 years and is now experimenting with poetry and prose. His extended and expansive McCormack family have resided in Linwood since the 1800's. Football and Industry play an important part in his work, as do childhood friends and rites of passge through the sixties and seventies. In recent years , has been Scotland’s first Equity & Equalities Reviewer of assessment tools and authored texts and items for P4, P7 and S3 for all Scottish school’s, SNSA’s. He has also been employed as a script consultant for BBC Bitesize.As a teenager from Linwood, in the 70’s, he holidayed in Iran and immigrated to South Africa in 1976, which ended after 6 months of living with unacceptable racism. Either side of the South African experience, he attended St. Joseph’s College in Dumfries, as a boarder.
