Pippa Little is a Scottish poet, reviewer, translator, and editor. She has published five poetry collections and her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Oxford Poets 2010 and Best British Poetry 2011.

Biography

Pippa Little was born in

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and was raised in St. Andrews,

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. She has a PhD in contemporary women’s poetry from

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

. Her early career was in publishing as a sub-editor and staff writer. Little has reviewed poetry for literary journals and has published translations of Spanish and Hungarian poetry. Her first poetry collection, ‘’The Spar Box’’, came out in 2006 and was the UK Poetry Book Society’s (PBS) pamphlet choice. Little is winner of the

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by United Kingdom poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. Past winne ...

(1985), the Andrew Waterhouse Award (2009),

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Centenary Poetry Prize(2010), and the joint winner of the University of Glasgow's James McCash Scots Poetry Competition (2012). In 2016, Little was named one of 20 recipients of the Best Scottish Poems Awards. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at

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, in

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. Her 2017 collection ''Twist'' was described by

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as 'an ''imaginarium'' of the sensed world, its

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artistry born of precise attention to its particulars. Little is both

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and

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mystic, with an ear to the air of language. These are poems that tunnel into the open of later life and I find deep wisdom in them'.

Poetry collections

* ''Time Begins to Hurt'' (2022) * ''Twist'' (2017) *''Our Lady of Iguanas'' (2016) * ''Overwintering'' (2012) *''The Snow Globe'' (2011) *''Foray'' (2009) In Anthology *''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology'' (University of Georgia Press, 2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Pippa Living people 21st-century Scottish poets Scottish women poets Academics of Newcastle University Alumni of Queen Mary University of London 21st-century Scottish women writers Year of birth missing (living people)

Biography

Poetry collections

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