Isabel Galleymore is a British poet and academic. In 2017, she was co-winner of the Eric Gregory Award. In 2020, her first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Galleymore is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Education
After studying English literature at University of Reading and creative writing at the University of St Andrews, she completed a PhD at the University of Exeter.
Poetry
Her work is frequently understood to be part of contemporary ecopoetics and nature writing. Writing on the topic of beauty, prettiness and wonder, Galleymore has asked "rather than cast them out of ecopoetic practice, could it be more productive to look deeply into them?".
She has published two pamphlets of poetry: Dazzle Ship (Worple, 2014) and Cyanic Pollens (Guillemot, 2020). Her first collection of poems, Significant Other, was published by Carcanet in 2019. The book won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020.
Academic career
Galleymore is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham, UK.
In 2022–23, she became the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, undertaking a project that explored the role of cuteness in environmental culture.
Works
Poetry
Dazzle Ship (Worple, 2014) Significant Other (Carcanet, 2019)
Scholarship
Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Awards
2017: Co-winner, Eric Gregory Award
2019: Shortlisted, Forward Prize for Best First Collection, for Significant Other 2020: Winner, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, for Significant Other
Residencies
Charles Causley Poet in Residence, 2017
Tambopata Nature Reserve Residency, 2017
Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence, 2021
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of the University of St Andrews Harvard University faculty Academics of the University of Birmingham 21st-century English poets English women poets