Nancy Campbell Explained

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Notable Works:	The Library of IceDisko BayThunderstone
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Awards:	RGS Ness Award 2021
Education:	University of Oxford
Nationality:	British
Nancy Campbell
Language:	English
Birth Date:	February 12, 1978
Birth Place:	Exeter, England
Occupation:	Poet and essayist, printmaker

Nancy Campbell is a British poet, non-fiction writer and publisher of artist's books. Her first collection of poetry, Disko Bay (2015), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.^[1] Other works include The Library of Ice (2018) and Fifty Words for Snow (2020). In 2018, she was appointed Canal Laureate by the Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust.^[2] In 2021 she received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award for environmental writing.^[3]

Early life and education

Campbell was born in Exeter and grew up in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland.^[4] She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1996-9 before training in letterpress printing and typefounding at Barbarian Press, and The New York Center for Book Arts. She subsequently worked for Book Works in London, and specialised in selling fine printing and writers' archives at the antiquarian book dealer Bertram Rota in Covent Garden.^[5]

Residencies and fellowships

• 2010 Upernavik Museum, Greenland: Writer in Residence^[6]
• 2012 Doverodde Book Arts Festival, Denmark: Writer in Residence^[7]
• 2012 Síldarminjasafn (Herring Era Museum), Siglufjörður, Iceland: Writer in Residence
• 2013 Words Across Northumberland, UK: Writer in Residence^[8]
• 2013-14 Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford: Visual and Performing Artist in Residence
• 2015 Herhusið, Iceland: Writer in Residence
• 2015 Ilulissat Kunstmuseum, Greenland: Writer in Residence^[9]
• 2017 Jan Michalski Foundation, Switzerland: Environmental Writing Fellowship^[10]
• 2018-2019 Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany: Literature Fellowship^[11]
• 2022 Hawthornden Castle, Scotland: Fellowship
• 2023 Peter Szondi Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany: Visiting Professor^[12]

Published works

• How to Say 'I Love You' in Greenlandic, Bird Editions, 2011
• Doverrode: Twenty Days in Denmark, Bird Editions, 2012
• ITOQQIPPOQ, Bird Editions, 2014
• Vantar | Missing, Bird Editions, 2014,
• Disko Bay, Enitharmon Editions, 2015, - shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
• Death of a Foster Son, Bird Editions, 2016,
• The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words, Bird Editions, 2017,
• The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate, Simon and Schuster, 2018, - longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
• Navigations, Happenstance Press, 2020,
• Fifty Words for Snow, Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 2020, ISBN 978-1783964987
• Uneasy Pieces, Guillemot Press, 2022,
• Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm, Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 2022,

Art Writing

• Bill Jacklin: Graphics, co-authored with Jill Lloyd, Royal Academy Publications, 2016, ISBN 9781910350409

Collaborations and artist's editions

• Dinner and a Rose: a homage to Patricia Highsmith - with Sarah Bodman, Bristol^[13]
• Songbook of Rare Feelings: courage, humility, remorse - with Ensemble VONK, The Netherlands^[14]
• Tikilluarit - with Roni Gross and Peter Schell, Z'roah Press, New York City^[15]
• The Night Hunter - with Roni Gross and Peter Schell, Z'roah Press, New York City^[16]
• Song for the Small Hours - Incline Press, Oldham, 2022^[17]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nancy Campbell. 2021-06-14. Forward Arts Foundation. en-GB.
2. Web site: Canal Laureate – The Poetry Society. 2021-06-14. poetrysociety.org.uk.
3. Web site: Royal Geographical Society - Latest news . 2023-09-13 . www.rgs.org.
4. Web site: Nancy Campbell (poet) - United Kingdom - Poetry International. 2021-06-01. www.poetryinternational.org.
5. Web site: Artist’s Books – Nancy Campbell. 2021-06-14. en-US.
6. Web site: Book review: Fifty Words for Snow, by Nancy Campbell. 2021-10-18. www.scotsman.com. en.
7. Web site: On the margins – Catalogue 2012, Doverodde Book Arts Festival IV. 2021-10-18. Issuu. en.
8. Web site: Forward Arts Foundation in Conversation with Nancy Campbell. 2021-10-18. Forward Arts Foundation. en-GB.
9. Web site: Six Questions For Nancy Campbell. 2021-10-18. The Island Review. en-US.
10. Web site: Nancy Campbell . 2023-09-13 . Fondation Jan Michalski . en.
11. Web site: Campbell, Nancy: Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia . 2023-09-13 . www.villa-concordia.de.
12. https://www.sfischergastprofessur.de/en/guest-professorship-guests-of-honour/nancy-campbell
13. Web site: 2022-08-11 . Sarah Bodman and Nancy Campbell- Dinner & A Rose . 2023-09-13 . Notts Book Arts . en.
14. Web site: A songbook of rare feelings – Stichting Ensemble VONK . 2023-09-13 . en-GB.
15. Web site: Tikilluarit . 2023-09-13 . ronigross.com.
16. Web site: The Night Hunter . 2023-09-13 . ronigross.com.
17. Web site: Song for the small hours . 2023-09-13 . Incline Press . en-GB.