Siobhan Campbell

Siobhan Campbell, born in Dublin in 1962, is an Irish poet and critic. She is the author of six poetry collections. Campbell has developed creative writing workshops for military veterans as well as story-gathering protocols for work with refugees. Her recent research into creative writing as social practice has led her to work with patients in palliative care. Educated at University College Dublin and at Lancaster University, Campbell also pursued post-graduate study at NYU and the New School, New York City. Campbell is on faculty at The Open University, Dept. of English.

Books

2017: Heat Signature
2010: Cross-Talk
2009: Darwin Among the Machines
2008: That Water Speaks in Tongues Winner of the Templar Award for Poetry, Shortlist: Michael Marks Poetry Award
2000: The Cold that Burns
1997, 1996: The Permanent Wave,

2016: Inside History: the work of Eavan Boland
2014: Mapping Jabal Al Natheef Academica.edu/Heinrich Böll Foundation
2012: Courage and Strength: Stories and Poems by Combat Veterans, KUP/ Combat Stress UK
2011: Forces Stories and Poems, SSAFA /KUP

Awards received in the following:

Winner, 'Poem of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards for the poem, '"Longboat at Portaferry"
Winner, O' Bheal poetry competition 2017
Winner of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Award 2016
Commissioned poem in honour of Gwendolyn Brooks in The Golden Shovel Anthology: In Honour of Gwendolyn Brooks
Commissioned poem in response to Ovid's Metamorphosis on his 2000th anniversary in Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets respond to Ovid
Forward Book of Poetry selection by Forward Prize Judges 2011
Wigtown International Poetry Competition 2010
Troubadour International Poetry Contest 2008
Gregory O’Donoghue memorial competition 2010
Mslexia open poetry competition 2009 ‘The Ripening of an R.U.C. man’
Templar Poetry Competition Winner 2009
Southword International Poetry Competition for ‘Clew Bay from the Reek’
National Poetry Competition 2005

Manuscripts related to That Water Speaks in Tongues have been acquired by the British Library to be archived for their Modern British Collections.