Eddie Gibbons

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Eddie Gibbons is a poet

Poetry Milestones Include

Editor at The Poets' Republic Magazine, 2016 Guest Reader at Aboyne and Deeside Festival, 2016 ​Guest Reader at Dundee Literary Festival, 2011 ​Invited Poet at the Golf Open Championship, St. Andrews, 2011 Guest 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, 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 Poetry Editor, Deliberately Thirsty Literary Magazine. 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

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