Gerry Cambridge
Gerry Cambridge is a poet, essayist, editor and sometime-harmonica player with substantial interest in print design and typography as well as a background in natural history photography. He joined us on our City to City project featuring artists from Glasgow & Lahore.
His publications include Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press, 2012) Aves (Essence Press, 2007; reprinted 2008), a collection of prose poems about wild birds; Madame Fi Fi’s Farewell and Other Poems (Luath, 2003); and ‘Nothing but Heather!’: Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and Prose (Luath, 1999; 2nd edition, 2008). Seamus Heaney wrote, of his long poem ‘Blue Sky, Green Grass’, winner of The Calum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2004: “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”. Of his latest collection, Notes for Lighting a Fire, the Times Literary Supplement wrote, “[Cambridge]’s poems are, in the main, immediate, but the best of them—many more than a handful—have a brand of slow, ruminative wisdom that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. His poetry has something of Robert Frost’s tone and seriousness, but rings with a deeply personal Scottish resonance all its own.”
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