Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Carol Watts on her collection Mimic Pond.   I’ve written poetry as far back as I can remember….

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Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Katrina Porteous on her collection Rhizodont.  Networks of Nature  Communities and Commissions  I did not set out…

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Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Eliza O’Toole on her collection A Cranic of Ordinaries.  Writing as the tip of the iceberg  How…

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JR Carpenter – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s JR Carpenter on their collection Measures of Weather. How and where do you write? Do you have…

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Judith Beveridge – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface

Welcome to our Below the Surface series for the 2025 Laurel Prize finalists. These pieces shine a light on the creative practice behind these outstanding collections and show how nature and the climate crisis impacted the authors’ processes. Here’s Judith Beveridge on her collection Tintinnabulum.  I always write at home in a garage that I have…

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