Gerry Cambridge
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Fellow at University of Edinburgh, Science and Engineering, 2006-09
Fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University, 2010/11
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Gerry Cambridge is a poet, editor and essayist, with a background in natural history photography. His publications include Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and Other Poems (Luath, 2003), and 'Nothing but Heather!': Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and Prose (Luath, 1999). The Times Literary Supplement described him as 'an honest-to-goodness makar'. Seamus Heaney wrote, of his long poem 'Blue Sky, Green Grass': 'it's a wonderful paean, and allows in so much that the usual poem keeps out - sheer, archaic joy: hymns to light, praise of the creatures, tales of the usual, names of the people and the places'. His poetry is anthologized in The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2005).
In his early twenties he wrote regularly for Reader's Digest; he contributed ten essays on American poets for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature (2004); he writes frequently for Scribners' British Writers and American Writers textbook series.
Since 1994 Gerry has published The Dark Horse, a Scottish-American poetry magazine. He was the 1997-1999 Brownsbank Writing Fellow, based at Hugh MacDiarmid's former home near Biggar in Lanarkshire. He has worked with schools and community groups throughout Scotland.
Website:
http://www.gerrycambridge.com
