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BXB/1/1/GAM
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Miriam Gamble
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- 2010 (Creation)
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(1980-)
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Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels in 1980 and grew up in Belfast. She studied at Oxford and at Queen’s University Belfast, where she completed a PhD in contemporary British and Irish poetry. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007, and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2010. Her pamphlet, This Man's Town, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2007. Her first book-length collection, The Squirrels Are Dead, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2010 and won her a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. She lives in Edinburgh, and works as a subtitler for the hard of hearing.
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Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Miriam Gamble.
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- Gamble, Miriam, 1980-, poet (Subject)