Dr Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore is an award-winning writer and lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her poems, which explore ecology and our human place within it, have been published in a number of magazines in the UK and US, and her first collection, Sigificant Other, was published by Carcanet in 2019 and won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020.

In 2016, Isabel’s curiosity for animals took her to the Amazon rainforest where she spent a month as a poet- in-residence and encountered howler monkeys, caiman, pink-toed tarantulas and lots and lots of mosquitos. Her pamphlet, Cyanic Pollens, published by Guillemot Press in 2020 is based on her experiences in the jungle.