Miriam Gamble Explained

Miriam Gamble
Birth Date:1980
Birth Place:Brussels, Belgium
Alma Mater:University of Oxford
Queen's University of Belfast
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Notablework:The Squirrels Are Dead (2010)
Pirate Music (2014)
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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

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rumens. Carol. Poem of the week: Bodies by Miriam Gamble. The Guardian. 30 November 2016. 15 December 2014 . 28 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231228125525/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/15/poem-of-the-week-bodies-by-miriam-gamble . live.
  2. Web site: Miriam Gamble - The University of Edinburgh. www.ed.ac.uk. 30 November 2016 . 1 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231001012349/https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/miriam-gamble . live.
  3. Web site: The Squirrels Are Dead - Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com. 30 November 2016 . 29 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225127/https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-squirrels-are-dead-963 . live.
  4. Web site: Doyle . Martin . Edna O’Brien wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Girl . The Irish Times . 23 January 2021 . en . 22 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230422010440/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/edna-o-brien-wins-kerry-group-irish-novel-of-the-year-award-for-girl-1.4263914 . live.
  5. Web site: Miriam Gamble - Scottish Poetry Library. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. 30 November 2016. 23 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220123053050/https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/miriam-gamble/ . live.
  6. Web site: The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award - Edinburgh Research Explorer. www.research.ed.ac.uk. 30 November 2016 . 30 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161130194612/http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/activities/the-ireland-chair-of-poetry-bursary-award(c39b80a9-8208-4ab4-b00e-aaa11fdf7be3).html . dead.
  7. Web site: Somerset Maugham Awards . www.societyofauthors.org. 30 November 2016 . 17 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417212004/https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/somerset-maugham-awards/ . dead.
  8. Web site: Abud-Rouch . Aaron . Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize — Australian Centre . Faculty of Arts . 21 May 2024 . en . 20 May 2022 . 10 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240110120628/https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/external-prizes/vincent-buckley-poetry-prize . live.

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