Alan Gillis is from Belfast and now lives in Scotland, where he teaches English at The University of Edinburgh. He has published four poetry collections with The Gallery Press: Scapegoat (2014), Here Comes the Night (2010), Hawks and Doves (2007) and Somebody, Somewhere (2004), which won the Strong Award for Best First Collection in Ireland. He has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007. In 2014 he was selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society. As a critic, he is author of Irish Poetry of the 1930s (2005), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), both published by Oxford University Press. From 2010-2015 he was editor of Edinburgh Review. Since judging the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, he has published his fifth book of poems The Readiness (2020) with Picador Poetry, and in the USA with Wake Forest University Press; Wake Forest also published Scapegoat and Other Poems (2016), which gathered work from his first four poetry collections.
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