Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore is a British poet and academic. In 2017, she was co-winner of the Eric Gregory Award. In 2020, her first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Galleymore is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Education
After studying English literature at University of Reading and creative writing at the University of St Andrews, she completed a PhD at the University of Exeter.

Career
Galleymore is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham, UK.

In 2022–23, she became the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, undertaking a project that explored the role of cuteness in environmental culture.

Her work is frequently understood to be part of contemporary ecopoetics and nature writing. Writing on the topic of beauty, prettiness and wonder, Galleymore has asked "rather than cast them out of ecopoetic practice, could it be more productive to look deeply into them?".

She has published two pamphlets of poetry: Dazzle Ship (Worple, 2014) and Cyanic Pollens (Guillemot, 2020). Her first collection of poems, Significant Other, was published by Carcanet in 2019. The book won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020.

Poetry

 * Dazzle Ship (Worple, 2014)
 * Significant Other (Carcanet, 2019) ISBN 9781784107116
 * Cyanic Pollens (Guillemot Press, 2020)

Scholarship

 * Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) ISBN 9781350068414

Awards

 * 2017: Co-winner, Eric Gregory Award
 * 2019: Shortlisted, Forward Prize for Best First Collection, for Significant Other
 * 2020: Winner, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, for Significant Other

Residencies

 * Charles Causley Poet in Residence, 2017
 * Tambopata Nature Reserve Residency, 2017
 * Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence, 2021