Jorie Graham Wins the 2023 Laurel Prize

Harvard University academic Jorie Graham has scooped the 2023 Laurel Prize, the global nature and ecopoetry award created by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage worth £5,000. 

The prize is funded by Armitage’s laureate’s honorarium, which he receives annually from the King, and is run by the Poetry School. It is awarded to the best collection of environmental or nature poetry published that year. 

Graham took the top prize for To 2040 (Carcanet Press). Her poetry has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), the Los Angeles Times Book Award among others. 

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