Turnbull, Gael

Variant names

Dates:

Birth 1928-04-07

Death 2004-07-02

Biographical notes:

Epithet: poet and physician

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000349

British poet; b. 1928.

From the description of Gael Turnbull papers, 1965-1973. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420460

English author.

From the description of Note to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1967 October. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844464

From the description of Note to an unidentified recipient, 1967 October. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136334

Gael Lundin Turnbull, 1928- ,Scottish born poet, editor, and anesthesiologist, living in England.

Gael Turnbull was the editor of MIGRANT PRESS during the 1960s.

From the description of Correspondence, 1956-1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309772653

Gael Turnbull was born 7 April 1928, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Ralph Gale (a minister) and Anne (Lundin) Turnbull . He attended Cambridge University (B.A., 1948) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1951). Awarded the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Prize (1965) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (1968), Turnbull has been a Physician in general practice and anesthesiologist in Worcestershire, England, since 1951. His poetry has been published since 1954.

Writings by the Author: Poem (With Eli Mandel and Phyllis Webb) Trio , Contact Press (Toronto) , 1954 . The Knot in the Wood and Fifteen Other Poems , Revision Press (London) , 1955 . Bjarni Spike-Helgi's Son and Other Poems , Origin Press (Ashland, Mass.) , 1956 . A Libation, The Poet (Glasgow) , 1957 . With Hey, Ho.... , Migrant Press (Birmingham, England) , 1961 . To You, I Write , Migrant Press , 1963 . A Very Particular Hill , Wild Hawthorn Press , 1963 . Twenty Words, Twenty Days: A Sketchbook and a Morula , Migrant Press , 1966 . Briefly , Tarasque Press (Nottingham , England), 1967 . A Trampoline: Poems 1952-1964 , Cape Goliard Press , 1968 . I Maksoud , University of Exeter , 1969 . Scantlings: Poems 1964-69 , Cape Goliard Press , 1970 . Finger Cymbals , Satis (Edinburgh) , 1972 . A Random Sampling , Pig Press (New castle-upon-Tyne, England) , 1974 . Wulstan , Blue Tunnel (Bradford England) , 1975 . Witley Court Revisited , Migrant Press , 1975 . Residues , Grosseteste (Staffordshire, England) , 1976 . Thronging the Heart , Aggie Weston , 1976 . If a Glance Could Be Enough , Satis , 1978 . Rain in Wales , Satis , 1981 . A Gathering of Poems, 1950-1980 (a retrospective collected edition of earlier work), Anvil Press (London) , 1983 . (With John Christie) Nine Intersections , Circle Press (Guildford) , 1982 . Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.

From the guide to the Gael Turnbull Papers., undated, 1965-1973., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center .)