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.

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 pamphlet ‘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’.

His poetry is anthologized in The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000) edited by Douglas Dunn, A Book of Scottish Verse (2001) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2005). Since 1994 he has published and edited The Dark Horse, a transatlantic poetry magazine with an international reputation.