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NewsJorie Graham Wins the Laurel Prize Friday, 22 Sep 2023 ![]() The Laurel Prize is an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry to highlight and raise awareness of the climate crisis. The prize is funded by Simon Armitage's Laureate honorarium, which he receives annually from the King, and is run by the Poetry School. This year's judges are poets Pascale Petit and Nick Laird, and journalist and presenter Reeta Chakrabarti. Congratulations Jorie! ![]() Here, we linger, climate crisis on hold, as Graham invites the reader to sit silent, to hear soil breathe. To 2040 is narrated by a speaker who reflects on her own mortality – in the glass window of a radiotherapy room, in the first 'claw full of hair' placed gently on a green shower ledge. 2040 as both future and event-horizon: the reader leaves the book warned, wiser, attentively on edge. 'Inhale. / Are you still there / the sun says to me'. The title poem asks, 'what was yr message, what were u meant to / pass on?' Next Item |
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