Miriam Gamble

Dr Miriam Gamble is a poet and essayist from Belfast. She studied at Oxford and at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she taught literature and creative writing while completing a PhD in contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Miriam has published three poetry collections with Bloodaxe Books: The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), Pirate Music (2014) and What Planet (2019). The Squirrels Are Dead won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011 and What Planet received the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize. She has also won an Eric Gregory Award, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award, and the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Recently, she's been working on a series of personal essays.

Teaching

MSc in Creative Writing 

PhD Supervision: Arthur Allen, Lauren Pope, Alex Smith 

Her research interests are mainly in modern and contemporary poetry, with particular emphases on Northern Irish poetry, poetic form, and the relationship between poetry and the political.