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Siobhan Campbell

Principal lecturer in Creative Writing

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Overview

Poet Siobhán Campbell was born in Dublin, and is a graduate of University College, Dublin. She spent a number of years in New York and San Francisco and worked as Managing Editor of Wolfhound Press before joining Kingston University where she is a principal lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. Widely published in the USA and UK, she is the recipient of awards in the National Poetry Competition as well as citations in the Michael Marks, Wigtown International and Troubadour poetry awards.

She is currently supervising PhDs in creative writing and English literature including work on dialectology, poetry as testimony and contemporary approaches to Ekphrasis.

Most recently she has been working alongside the Military Writing Network, in an initiative which has brought together several organisations and individuals who seek to encourage, develop and value creative writing by veterans, ex-combatants, currently serving personnel and their families.

Said Siobhan: "For centuries, soldiers have used poetry and prose to describe the horrors of war. The celebrated First World War poets - Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke - famously wrote powerful verses which still resonate today.  But nowadays we seldom see literary works about more modern conflicts, such as Afghanistan, Iraq or the Falklands, written by those involved."

Now a unique competition organised by Kingston University and the Military Writers Network aims to change all that, and has found some of the best modern forces poets and authors. Several hundred members of the armed forces, their families and friends submitted their poetry and prose to take part in the "Forces Stories and Poems" competition, which was held in May 2011 and marked the 125th anniversary of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help. Siobhan is now working with MWN writers to produce a public archive of this important work.

 

 

   

    

 

Qualifications

Year gained Subject
1996 MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College, Dublin.
1983 BA in English Literature and History, University College, Dublin.

Career Highlights

Year Position held
2004 - 2005 Self employed writer, lecturer & editor.
2002 - 2004 Head of Creative Writing Department, The Airfield Trust (Arts & Heritage Trust).
1999 - 2002 Director (Dublin office), Wolfhound Press Ltd.
1998 - 2002 Director (San Francisco office), Wolfhound Press Ltd.
1990 - 1998 Director and Publishing Manager, Wolfhound Press Ltd.
1985 - 1990 Publishing Manager, Wolfhound Press Ltd.
1983 - 1985 Manager, Butler Sims Ltd (publishers and agents).

Research

Books:

Campbell, Siobhan (2009),  Cross-talk, Blackstaff Press. ISBN 9781854115096.

Campbell, Siobhan (2009) Darwin among the machines.17 Presteigne, Wales : Rack Press. 12p. ISBN 0956101305

Campbell, Siobhan (2008) That water speaks in tongues.18 Matlock, U.K. : Templar Poetry. 38p. ISBN 9781906285234

 

Campbell, Siobhan (2000), The cold that burns, Blackstaff Press,. ISBN 9780856406751.

 

Campbell, Siobhan (1996) The Permanent Wave, Blackstaff Press. ISBN 9780856405723.

Book sections:

Campbell, Siobhan (2004) Turns.19 In: Cashman, Seamus, (ed.) Something beginning with P: new poems from Irish poets. Dublin, Eire : The O'Brien Press. pp. 67-67. ISBN 0862788684

Campbell, Siobhan (2002) Siobhan Campbell (1962- ).20 In: Bourke, Angela , Kilfeather, Siobhan , Luddy, Maria , Mac Curtain, Margaret , Meaney, Gerardine , Dhonnchadha, Mairin Ni , O'Dowd, Mary and Wills, Clair, (eds.) The Field Day anthology of Irish writing: volume v: Irish women's writing and traditions. Cork, Eire : Cork University Press. pp. 1312-1315. ISBN 185918281X

Campbell, Siobhan (2002) Transformations: addressing Eavan Boland's codes.21 In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Cork Literary Review. Bradshaw Books. pp. 89-95. ISBN 0949010847.

Articles:

Campbell, Siobhan (2007) Doubled.2 Oxford Magazine(264), p. 13. ISSN (print) 0268-1137

Campbell, Siobhan (2007) Quickthorn.3 Poetry, 191(3), p. 206. ISSN (print) 0032-2032

Campbell, Siobhan (2006) Grist.4 nthposition online magazine,

Campbell, Siobhan (2006) In search of rapture: Book Review of: Strawberry thief by Sara Berkeley, Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy and Whereabouts by Mark Roper.5 Poetry Ireland Review(85), pp. 85-90. ISSN (print) 0332-2998

Campbell, Siobhan (2006) Platform.6 nthposition online magazine,

Campbell, Siobhan (2006) You are never just out, walking a field.7 nthposition online magazine,

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Book review of: And then Something Happened by Susan M. Schultz.8 The Stinging Fly, 2(2), ISSN (print) 1393-5690

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Book review of: Woods, Etc by Alice Oswald.9 The Stinging Fly, 2(2), ISSN (print) 1393-5690

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Campbell.10 The Southern Review, 41(1), p. 150. ISSN (print) 0038-4534

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Defined by negatives.11 The Southern Review, 41(1), p. 148. ISSN (print) 0038-4534

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) First time up.12 Poetry Ireland Review, 84, p. 48. ISSN (print) 0332-2998

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Grist.13 Poetry Ireland Review, 84, p. 49. ISSN (print) 0332-2998

Campbell, Siobhan (2005) Hothead.14 The Southern Review, 41(1), p. 149. ISSN (print) 0038-4534

Campbell, Siobhan (2004) Pitched.15 Cyphers, 57, p. 33. ISSN (print) 1393-2985

Campbell, Siobhan (2002) Lyric.16 De brakke hond(76), pp. 22-23. ISSN (print) 0771-7260

 

Academic Accolades

Siobhan has been awarded a number of prizes for her poetry.

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