Jemma Borg 
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How it is with the circle inglés

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The mathematician inglés

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A short treatise on a squid inglés

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Chromatography inglés

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Relic inglés

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Nocturne inglés

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The lover of Amazonian catfish inglés

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St Elmo's fire inglés

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Watching the fisherman at night, Tung Chung inglés

Lookout over Happy Valley inglés

Jemma Borg 
Author

Foto © Anne-Sophie Olive
* 09.10.1970, Billericay, Essex, Reino Unido
Vive en: Tunbridge Wells, Reino Unido

Jemma Borg was born in Essex. She took a first in zoology at Oxford, where she also completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics. She has worked as a science editor and writer, research administrator in the charity sector, environmental campaigner and teacher, and has lived and worked in places including Australia, Pakistan and Hong Kong.

Her poems have been widely published in magazines including Poetry Review, Poetry London and Stand, and in anthologies including I am twenty people! (Enitharmon, 2007), Oxford Poets Anthology 2007 (Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2007), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Eyewear/Cinnamon 2012) and The Poets’ Quest for God (Eyewear, 2014).
She has received prizes, or been shortlisted, in competitions including the Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition, the Bridport, Mslexia Poetry Competition, Smith/Doorstop Pamphlet Competition and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize. She won the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry in 2007 and was a resident at the Leighton Artists’ Colony at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2009. Her first collection, The Illuminated World, is out from Eyewear in October 2014. She currently lives in East Sussex with her husband and young son.

 Foto © Anne-Sophie Olive
Publicaciones
  • This little stretch of life

    Hearing Eye/Poetry School, 2006

  • I am twenty people! Poetry School Anthology

    Enitharmon, 2007

  • Oxford Poets Anthology 2007

    Oxford: Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2007

  • Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam

    [anthology]

    London: Eyewear Publishing, 2012

  • The Illuminated World

    London: Eyewear Publishing, 2014

Premios
  • 2007 New Writing Ventures Award

  • Fledgling Award

  • 2017 Rialto/RSPB Nature and Place Competition

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