Gerry has published four full-length poetry collections: The Shell House, Madame Fifi’s Farewell, Aves, and Nothing But Heather, a collection of poems accompanying his own wildlife photographs, written while Writer in Residence at Brownsbank Cottage, Hugh MacDiarmid’s former home. Gerry also plays a mean Harmonica!!!

One of the most promising and original of modern Scottish poets...a master of form and subtlety (George Mackay Brown)

Gerry Cambridge captures the essence of people (as of birds) as well as any poet now writing. (Anne Stevenson)

In this new book by Gerry  Cambridge is like a pint of Scottish ale in the hot and dusty Sahara. In Cambridge’s poems, neither consummate skill or deep feeling have gone out of style. (X.J. Kennedy)

Gerry performed at the Bakehouse on 6th December 2008.

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