Gerry Cambridge: other work

Lighting Up Lanarkshire, Clydeside Press 2006, Limited edition (75 copies) of commissioned poem. 12p. Themes: Scottish mining, light, family relationships.

Building a New Path; South Lanarkshire Council, 2006. 48p. ISBN: 978-0-9553127-1-X. Themes: the strangeness of language, concrete poetry, poetry in public spaces.

Blue Sky, Green Grass; Lawthorn Books, 2003. 32 p. Limited edition of 170 copies. Themes: Primary School life, nature and children, Ayrshire landscape.

The Praise of Swans; Shoestring Press, 2000. 28 p. ISBN: 1899549498. (All poems later reprinted in Madame Fi Fi’s Farewell.)

The Dark Gift and Other Poems; St Inan’s Press, 1994. 16 p. Themes: sonnets, human relationships,

Critical Prose

Ten essays of a total of 34,000 words in the 4-volume Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature (2004), on: Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Derek Walcott, Jones Very, John Crowe Ransom, Robinson Jeffers, and The [American] New Formalism. Nine 12,000-word essays written between 2000 and 2006 on Les Murray, Anthony Hecht, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope, Iain Crichton Smith, Douglas Dunn, X. J. Kennedy, G.F. Dutton and Stewart Conn published in the British Writers and American Writers series by Charles Scribners’ Sons.

As Editor:

Founder editor of The Dark Horse, a Scottish-American poetry magazine with an international reputation, which I began in 1995.