Born in Huyton, Liverpool, in a previous century.
Apprenticed Toolmaker. Design Draughtsman.
Media Designer. Moved to Aberdeenshire in 1980.
Founder Chairman of The Lemon Tree Writers , Aberdeen.
Founder member (with Gerard Rochford and Doug Gray)
of Dead Good Poets at Books & Beans, Aberdeen.
Never knowingly understood. Twitter: @1Eddie_Gibbons
Apprenticed Toolmaker. Design Draughtsman.
Media Designer. Moved to Aberdeenshire in 1980.
Founder Chairman of The Lemon Tree Writers , Aberdeen.
Founder member (with Gerard Rochford and Doug Gray)
of Dead Good Poets at Books & Beans, Aberdeen.
Never knowingly understood. Twitter: @1Eddie_Gibbons
Poetry milestones include -
Invited reader at Aboyne and Deeside Festival, 2016
Invited reader at Dundee Literary Festival, 2011
Invited poet at the Golf Open Championship, St. Andrews, 2011
Invited reader 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 International Poetry Festival, 2007
Invited 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
Poetry Editor, Deliberately Thirsty Literary Magazine, 2001
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 –
Land of Three Rivers – Bloodaxe Books, 2017
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
Invited reader at Aboyne and Deeside Festival, 2016
Invited reader at Dundee Literary Festival, 2011
Invited poet at the Golf Open Championship, St. Andrews, 2011
Invited reader 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 International Poetry Festival, 2007
Invited 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
Poetry Editor, Deliberately Thirsty Literary Magazine, 2001
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 –
Land of Three Rivers – Bloodaxe Books, 2017
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
