Gale Burns
Gale Burns is a London-based award‑winning poet, recipient of the Indjija International Prize (2017), the Menada Prize at Tetova (2023), and the Shoreham Wordfest Poetry Prize (2025). He has been writer in residence for many years at Sydenham Arts Festival and University Hospital Lewisham. A former Hawthornden Fellow, he convenes the Shuffle poetry series. His second collection As It Must is published by KUP and his work has been widely translated. Gale is also a psychotherapeutic counsellor advising Greenpeace UK on climate distress and a member of Poets for the Planet.
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“…a feeling of passionate engagement tempered by poetic control” – poet Dino Mahony
The Builder
Reading the poem "The Builder" at Sydenham Arts Festival 2019
