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Lamb was a mother and grandmother <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegrantidote.com/helen|title=Helen|website=The Grantidote|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref> who lived in [[Dunblane]] with Chris Powici<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/chris-powici/|title=Chris Powici {{!}} Poet|website=Scottish Poetry Library|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>, who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the [[University of Stirling]]. |
Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegrantidote.com/helen|title=Helen|website=The Grantidote|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref> who lived in [[Dunblane]] with Chris Powici<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/chris-powici/|title=Chris Powici {{!}} Poet|website=Scottish Poetry Library|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>, who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the [[University of Stirling]]. |
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Helen Lamb (1956-27 March 2017) was an award winning Scottish poet and short story writer who also worked with the cancer caring Maggie's Centres in the Forth Valley promoting the role of writing in well-being.[1]
Personal life
Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother [2] who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici[3], who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling.
Career
Lamb won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 prize for her story 'Long Grass, Moon City’. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and in the joint anthology Strange Fish [4] along with fellow poet Magi Gibson. She also published a short story collection entitled 'Superior bedsits' and many of her stories were broadcast on radio.[5] Her work has been featured in other general anthologies[1] and she was one of the writers included in 'Working words: Scottish creative writing' which was designed to promote creative writing in schools.[6] Her poem 'Spell of the bridge' was one of those reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day in 2007[7]. Lamb worked at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, tutoring in creative writing[1]. As well as working with cancer charity, Maggie's Centres, Lamb also worked with adult survivors of childhood abuse, editing anthologies of their writings[1]. She died suddenly in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel 'Three kinds of kissing'.[8]
Publications
Helen Lamb | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Died | 27 March 2017 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Genre | Poetry, Short stories, Fiction |
| Notable awards | Scotland on Sunday Women 2000 Prize |
| Partner | Chris Powici |
Works
- Strange fish (1997) [with Magi Gibson]
- Superior bedsits : and other stories (Polygon 2001)
- Three kinds of kissing (2018)
Anthologies
- Working words / Valerie Thornton (1995)
- Different boundaries / edited by Barbara Weightman and Elsie MacRae (1995)
- Bucket of frogs / edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham (2008)
- Songs of other places / edited by Gerry Cambridge and Zoë Strachan (2014)
- Original prints : New writing from Scottish women. Vol. 4 (1992)
- Last things first / edited by A.L. Kennedy and James McGonigal (1995)
- Friends and kangaroos / edited by Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke (1999)
- Across the water : Irishness in modern Scottish writing / edited by James McGonigal, Donny O'Rourke & Hamish Whyte (2000)
References
- ^ a b c d "Helen Lamb". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ "Helen". The Grantidote. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ "Chris Powici | Poet". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ Gibson, Magi, 1953- (1997). Strange fish. Lamb, Helen. Glasgow: Duende. ISBN 1-900537-03-6. OCLC 46333149.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Lamb, Helen. (2001). Superior bedsits, and other stories. Edinburgh: Polygon. ISBN 0-7486-6306-1. OCLC 49894371.
- ^ Thornton, Valerie. (1995). Working words. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-61870-1. OCLC 33188219.
- ^ "National Poetry Day 2007 Archives". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ Lamb, Helen, (2018). Three kinds of kissing. Glasgow, Scotland: Vagabond Voices. ISBN 1-908251-91-3. OCLC 1048095478.
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