Eddie Gibbons

Eddie Gibbons was born in Huyton, Liverpool, but has been living and working in Aberdeen since 1981. An engineering draughtsman by trade, he is also a poet with four published collections. His first collection Stations of the Heart was published in 1999, when he was aged fifty. In 2008, he was a runner up in the inaugural Edwin Morgan Poetry Collection with his poem Henri Rousseau Meets Frank O’Hara. Football features prominently in his work – his third collection, Game On!, is inspired by the sport – and he is a member of the Football Poets website.

Eddie Gibbons is a founder member of the Lemon Tree Writers’ Group in Aberdeen. His latest collection What They Say About You was published in 2010.