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Helen Lamb (1956-27 March 2017) was an award-winning Scottish poet and short story writer who also worked with the cancer caring Maggie's Centres in the Forth Valley promoting the role of writing in well-being.[1]

Helen Lamb
Born	1956
Died	27 March 2017
Nationality	Scottish
Genre	Poetry, Short stories, Fiction
Notable awards	Scotland on Sunday Women 2000 Prize
Partner	Chris Powici

Personal life

Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother [2] who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici,[3] who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling.

Career

Her poetry has been published in literary journals and in the joint anthology Strange Fish [4] along with fellow poet Magi Gibson. She also published a short story collection entitled 'Superior Bedsits' and many of her stories were broadcast on radio.[5] Her work has been featured in other general anthologies[1] and she was one of the writers included in 'Working words: Scottish creative writing' which was designed to promote creative writing in schools.[6] Her poem 'Spell of the bridge' was one of those reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day in 2007.[7] Lamb worked at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, tutoring in creative writing.[1] As well as working with cancer charity, Maggie's Centres, Lamb also worked with adult survivors of childhood abuse, editing anthologies of their writings.[1] She died suddenly in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel 'Three kinds of kissing',[8] described by fellow author Tracey Emerson as "a subtly devastating wonder"[9]

Awards

Lamb won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 prize for her story "Long Grass, Moon City".

Publications

Works

• Strange fish (1997) [with Magi Gibson]
• Superior bedsits : and other stories (Polygon 2001)
• Three kinds of kissing (2018)

Anthologies

• Original prints : New writing from Scottish women. Vol. 4. (1992)
• Working words / Valerie Thornton. (1995)
• Different boundaries / edited by Barbara Weightman and Elsie MacRae. (1995)
• Last things first / edited by A.L. Kennedy and James McGonigal. (1995)
• After the Watergaw : a collection of new poetry from Scotland inspired by water / edited by Robert Davidson. (1998)
• Friends and kangaroos / edited by Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke. (1999)
• Across the water : Irishness in modern Scottish writing / edited by James McGonigal, Donny O'Rourke & Hamish Whyte. (2000)
• Going up Ben Nevis in a bubble car / edited by Moira Burgess and Janet Paisley. (2001)
• Milking the haggis / edited by Valerie Thornton and Hamish Whyte. (2004)
• The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry / edited by Maurice Lindsay and Lesley Duncan. (2005)
• The thing that mattered most : Scottish poems for children / edited by Julie Johnstone. (2006)
• The dynamics of balsa / edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham. (2007)
• Bucket of frogs / edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham. (2008)
• Songs of other places / edited by Gerry Cambridge and Zoë Strachan. (2014)

References

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