Eddie Gibbons
Available for poetry readings and user-friendly poetry workshops. Born in Huyton, Liverpool, in a previous century. A founder member and Chairman of ‘The Lemon Tree Writers’ and ‘The Dead Good Poets’ Society’, Aberdeen. Currently a poetry editor for ‘The Poets' Republic’ magazine, Stonehaven.
Time-served Toolmaker. Design Draughtsman. Media Designer. Moved to Aberdeenshire in 1980.
About writer's work
Poetry Milestones
Appointed as a Poetry Editor for ‘The Poets’ Republic’ magazine, 2015
Writer in Residence, Yeadon’s Books, Banchory – 2011-2103
One-man Poetry Cabaret at Dundee Literary Festival, 2011
What They Say About You shortlisted for Poetry, Scottish Book of the Year Awards, 2011.
One-man Poetry Cabaret at StAnza International Poetry Festival, 2009
Prize winner in the Inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition, 2008
Reading at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2008
Participant in ‘The Hundred Poets Gathering.’ StAnza, 2007
Reader at Aberdeen University WORD Festival, 2006
'Schrodinger's Catflap' was 'Poem of the Week' in the Scotsman newspaper, 6th May, 2006
Readings in Berlin and Dortmund for the British Council, 2005
Reader at Thirsty Lunch, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2004
'Why Buses Come in Threes' was the Scottish Arts Council's Poem of the Month, August 2003
Readings at The Poetry Café and the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 2002 & 2004
Poems performed at the Millennium Dome, 2001
Regional Judge for the Faber / Ottakars National Poetry Competition, 1999 & 2000
'Out of Dates' was a National Poetry Day Poetry Postcard published by the Scottish Book Trust, 1999
Anthologies
The Evergreen – A New Season in the North – Edinburgh Old Town Development, 2015
Double Bill - Red Squirrel Press, 2014
Split Screen – Red Squirrel Press, 2012
Starry Rhymes : 85 Years of Allen Ginsberg – One Night Stanzas, 2011
By Grand Central Station We Sat Down and Wept – Red Squirrel Press, 2010
Silver: An Aberdeen Anthology – Polygon/Berlinn, 2009
For Angus (Poems for Angus Calder) – Los Poetry Press, Cambridge, 2008
Skein of Geese: Poems from The Hundred Poets Gathering – Stanza, 2007
Unsuitable Companions – Happenstance, 2007
Sex and the City - Koo Press, 2006
Left to Write – Lemon Tree Writers, Aberdeen, 1995
The Book of Poems – City of Aberdeen, 1991
Work in progress
Three Routes North with Peter Burnett and Neil Young