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Alan Gillis

Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973 and lives in Scotland where he is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh. His first poetry collection, Somebody, Somewhere (2004) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection. Hawks and Doves (2007), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Here Comes the Night was published in 2010 followed by Scapegoat in 2014. He was selected as a “Next Generation Poet” by the UK’s Poetry Book Society in 2014. His sixth collection, Over Here was published by The Gallery Press in July 2025. In addition, Alan Gillis has co-edited numerous volumes of criticism, including, with Fran Brearton, the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (2010), and Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture (2001). He is the author of Irish Poetry of the 1930’s, published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Source: Commons

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