GABRIEL BRADFORD MILLAR PROFILE

Gabriel Bradford Millar is a renegade American, born in New York in 1944. She just survived five years of university in NY and Edinburgh, where she read with The Heretics, had poems in Lines Review and Scottish International, read her work on BBC TV, and was interviewed by George Bruce on BBC Radio Scotland.

She married an Englishman and raised children and chickens in Gloucestershire, where she taught English A-level at a Steiner school. Outposts published Mid-Day in 1977; then came The Brook Runs and Bloom on the Stone. Thresholds – Near-Life Experiences came out in 1995. In 2001 thirty years of poetry were distilled in The Saving Flame.

Gabriel has given scores of readings, sharing the stage several times with Kathleen Raine and George Trevelyan.

She has given over one hundred playshops (‘Down from the Ivory Tower’) and, with Jay Ramsay, co-founded Poetry Stroud and Celebration of the Word as forums for other poets. She believes that poems, like love-talk, should go from mouth to ear, without any paper in between.