Helen Lamb
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Helen Lamb (1956-2017) 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 mother and grandmother [2] who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici[3], a fellow poet and 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 published a short story collection entitled 'Superior bedsits' [5] Her work also featured in other general anthologies[1]. Lamb worked at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling as a tutor of creative writing. 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 in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel 'Three kinds of kissing'.[6]
References
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ Lamb, Helen, (2018). Three kinds of kissing. Glasgow, Scotland: Vagabond Voices. ISBN 1-908251-91-3. OCLC 1048095478.
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