Dr Isabel Galleymore

• BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Reading
• MLitt Creative Writing, University of St Andrews
• PhD English Literature, “Trope on Trope: Rethinking Nature Writing Pedagogy through Metaphor”

My first poetry collection, Significant Other (Carcanet), won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize. My poetry and criticism have featured widely in magazines such as Poetry, Poetry Review and the London Review of Books. My poetry pamphlet, Cyanic Pollens, was published in 2020 and is an account of time as poet-in-residence at the Tambopata Research Centre in the Amazon rainforest in 2016. My academic monograph, Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020. I held the position of Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2022-23. 

Previous to my post at the University of Birmingham, I have taught English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter and the University of Reading. I was awarded a PGCert in Higher Education with Distinction in 2019. 

I would be interested in proposals regarding ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

Find out more - our PhD Creative Writing  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

I am a poet and critic publishing on contemporary poetry, environmental writing and ecocriticism, with a focus on interdisciplinarity. Critical works of mine have focused on metaphor, anthropomorphism and comedy with regard to environmental theory and literature. My current creative-critical research is interested in posthumanism, empathy and the methodologies used by environmental psychology.