British poet (born 1957)
Deborah Randall (born 1957) is a British poet. Randall started writing in 1986, and in 1988 she won the first (and only) Bloodaxe National Poetry Competition. Her debut poetry collection, "The Sin Eater" (1989) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. 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 Orkney, and later Ullapool in Scotland.
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