Miriam Gamble
Miriam Gamble | |
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| Born | 1980 Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford Queen's University of Belfast |
| Notable work | The Squirrels Are Dead (2010) Pirate Music (2014) |
Miriam Gamble (born 1980) is a poet who won the Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. She works as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
Life and career
[edit]Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1980 and grew up in Belfast in Northern Ireland.[1] She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and Modern Literary Studies at Queen's University of Belfast where she also received her PhD in Form, Genre and Lyric Subjectivity in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. She moved to Scotland in 2010 and began teaching creative writing at the University of Edinburgh in 2012.[2]
Her first collection of poems called, The Squirrels Are Dead was published in 2010 by Bloodaxe Books. Gamble's second collection, Pirate Music, was also published by Bloodaxe Books.[3] Her third, What Planet, was published by Bloodaxe in May 2019 and received the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize.[4]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- 2007 – Eric Gregory Award[5]
- 2010 – Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award[6]
- 2011 – Somerset Maugham Award for The Squirrels Are Dead[7]
- 2012 – Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize[8]
- 2020 – Pigott Poetry Prize[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Rumens, Carol (15 December 2014). "Poem of the week: Bodies by Miriam Gamble". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Miriam Gamble - The University of Edinburgh". www.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "The Squirrels Are Dead - Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ a b Doyle, Martin. "Edna O'Brien wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Girl". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Miriam Gamble - Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award - Edinburgh Research Explorer". www.research.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". www.societyofauthors.org. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize — Australian Centre". Faculty of Arts. 20 May 2022. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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