Gerry Cambridge

A few months ago we travelled to Glasgow to interview The Dark Horse magazine editor and poet Gerry Cambridge. In an interview that focuses more on Gerry's role as editor rather than as poet, Ryan and Gerry talk about how the magazine got started, whether it is possible to say what an editor is looking for in a magazine and muse the general state of literary magazine culture in the UK and the US. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser. Music by Ewen Maclean. Email us: splpodcast@gmail.com

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First published 9 July, 2010

About Gerry Cambridge

Gerry Cambridge is a poet, essayist, editor and harmonica player with interests in print design and typography as well as a background in natural history photography. His publications include Aves (Essence Press, 2007), a collection of prose poems about wild birds; Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and Other Poems (Luath, 2003); and ‘Nothing but Heather!': Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and Prose (Luath, 1999). His poetry is anthologized in The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2005).

Since 1994 Gerry has published and edited The Dark Horse, a Scottish-American poetry magazine with an international reputation. He was the 1997-1999 Brownsbank Writing Fellow, based at Hugh MacDiarmid's former home near Biggar in Lanarkshire, and has worked with schools and community groups throughout Scotland.

• Gerry's website
• The Dark Horse website

We recommend...

	Aves by Gerry Cambridge Edinburgh : Essence Press : 2007. Prose poetry with a documentary element. A little handbook about wild birds. Or really it's a sequence about adolescence and a life-altering obsession... SPL shelfmark: 3.Cam
	The Dark Horse edited by Gerry Cambridge By Kilmarnock, [1995] - The Dark Horse was founded in 1995 by Gerry. It is an international literary magazine committed to British, Irish and American poetry, and is published from Scotland. You can read archived and current issues of the Dark Horse here at the library

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Image: The Darker Horse © Chris Scott