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by Pamela Gillilan
Category: Poetry in English, 1945- - Texts

Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her ﬁrst collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.