Deborah Randall

Deborah Randall (born 1957) is a British poet. Randall started writing in 1986,[1] and in 1988 she won the first (and only) Bloodaxe National Poetry Competition.[2] Her debut poetry collection, The Sin Eater (1989) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.[3] Her second collection, White Eyes Dark Ages (1993), was a portrait in verse of John Ruskin.

Randall was born in 1957 in Gosport, Hampshire. She worked in various places – including a plastics factory, hotels and a children's home – before studying English at Sheffield University. She moved to live in Kirkwall in Orkney,[4] and later Ullapool in Scotland.[5]

Works

  • The Sin Eater. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1989.
  • White Eyes Dark Ages. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1993.

References

  1. ^ The Honest Ulsterman, Vol. 88 (1989), p.71
  2. ^ About Bloodaxe Books: History
  3. ^ The Daily Poem: The Gardeners, The Independent, 25 January 1994.
  4. ^ Neil Astley (1988). Poetry with an edge. Bloodaxe Books. p. 286. ISBN 978-1-85224-061-5.
  5. ^ Dorothy McMillan (2010). Modern Scottish Women Poets. Canongate Books. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-84767-507-1.
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