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Gerry Cambridge

b.1959

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Gerry Cambridge founded the transatlantic magazine The Dark Horse, still Scotland’s leading poetry journal, in 1995. He is also an essayist, print designer and typographer, with a background in natural history photography. He lived in an Ayrshire caravan for twenty-five years before leaving to become a Brownsbank Fellow in Hugh MacDiarmid’s former home for 1997–1999. He has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2006–2009) and at Glasgow Caledonian University (2010–2012). In his early twenties he was, as far as he knows, one of the youngest ever regular freelancers, specialising in nature articles, for the UK Reader’s Digest, which at the time (the 1980s) had a monthly circulation of 1.5 million copies.

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  • Field Days
  • In Gordon Street
  • Processional at the Winter Solstice

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Selected Bibliography

The Shell House (Scottish Cultural Press, 1995)
‘Nothing but Heather!’: Scottish nature in poems, photographs and prose (Luath, 1999; 2nd edition, 2008)
The Praise of Swans (Shoestring Press, 2000)
Madame Fi Fi’s Farewell and Other Poems (Luath Press, 2003)
Light Up Lanarkshire: a poem (2006)
Aves (Essence Press, 2007; reprinted 2008)
Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press, 2012, 2nd edition 2013)
The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems (HappenStance Press, 2019)

collaborations with primary schools:

‘blue sky, green grass’: a day at Lawthorn Primary (Lawthorn Books, 2003)
Building a New Path: Cairns Plantin (South Lanarkshire Council, 2006)

prose:

The Printed Snow: on typesetting poetry (HappenStance Press, 2015)
The Dark Horse: the making of a little magazine … (HappenStance Press, 2015)

 

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Gerry Cambridge’s website

The Dark Horse website

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Gerry Cambridge

July 2010
Ryan and Gerry Cambridge talk about how the Dark Horse magazine got started, whether it is possible to say what an editor is looking for in a magazine and muse the general state of literary magazine culture in the...
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