2019 Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology
The 2019 Ginkgo Prize anthology contains all the winning and highly commended poems from the 2019 awards, with forewords from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and judges Homero Aridjis and Jen Hadfield. The winning poets were Sue Riley, Anne Haven McDonnell and Rosamund Taylor with Emma Must awarded the Environmental Defenders Prize and Joanna Guthrie and Jane Robinson as runners-up. Click to download.
Poems
Second Place
“If you’re married, why do you call her Teresa?”
Teresa Dzieglewicz
Third Place
In the Physic Garden
Linda France
Highly Commended
Species Interactions for Tanvi
Topaz Winters
wild causalities
Garry MacKenzie
Song for the Cévennes
Sharon Black
An Argument with the Town Clerk
Sally St Clair
Calder
Theresa Sowerby
CANARY-SHOULDERED THORN
Mara Bergman
Confluence
Teresa Dzieglewicz
Night Shifts in the Nature Factory
Sarah Doyle
The Blackbird’s Egg
Andrew Forster
The tall, gaping mouth of the redwood
Jemma Borg
To read previous years’ winning poems, visit the Resurgence Prize website.