found: His Avoiding the gods, 1988:t.p. (Ian Abbot) prelim p. (b. Perth, 1944)
found: Finishing the picture, 2015:t.p. (Ian Abbot) p. 4 of cover (1947-1989; killed in a car accident close to his home in Whitebridge, Inverness)
found: Collins encyclopaedia of Scotland, 1994(Abbot, Ian (1947-89); poet; died in a car crash near Whitebridge, Inverness-shire; born in Perth; educated at Perth Academy, later reading medicine at Edinburgh University, then moving to Stirling University to study psychology; moved to Whitebridge (1974) to devote himself to writing; work was frequently published in literary periodicals; Avoiding the Gods is his first book of poetry)