Deborah Randall

Deborah Randall (born 1957) is a British poet. Randall started writing in 1986,[1] and in 1988 she won the first (and only) Bloodaxe National Poetry Competition.[2] Her debut poetry collection, The Sin Eater (1989) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.[3] Her second collection, White Eyes Dark Ages (1993), was a portrait in verse of John Ruskin.

Randall was born in 1957 in Gosport, Hampshire. She worked in various places – including a plastics factory, hotels and a children's home – before studying English at Sheffield University. She moved to live in Kirkwall in the Orkneys,[4] and later Ullapool in Scotland.[5]

Works
  • The Sin Eater. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1989.
  • White Eyes Dark Ages. Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1993.

References
  1. The Honest Ulsterman, Vol. 88 (1989), p.71
  2. About Bloodaxe Books: History
  3. The Daily Poem: The Gardeners, The Independent, 25 January 1994.
  4. Neil Astley (1988). Poetry with an edge. Bloodaxe Books. p. 286.
  5. Dorothy McMillan (2010). Modern Scottish Women Poets. Canongate Books. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-84767-507-1.


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