Ecopoetry Articles
Laurel Prize Shortlist 2026: Brandon Kilbourne
Brandon Kilbourne has been shortlisted for this year’s Laurel Prize 2026! Read more about him and his poem ‘Blindfold Wonder’ from his collection Natural History. Image credit: Jamila K. Grote About Brandon Brandon Kilbourne has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago and over twenty years of experience as a research biologist at natural…
Poetry School
Summit Festival with Poet in Residence, Sammy Weaver
To celebrate our launch of the Laurel Prize 2025, we are proud to present a beautiful blog and four stunning new poems from our Summit Poet in Residence, Sammy Weaver. In October 2024, over two hundred people and over twenty leading poets gathered for Summit, our festival devoted to ecopoetry and nature writing, with our…
Beth Evans (Poetry School)
Review – Of Sea by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and Thinking With Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant
What is the language of the invertebrate? What form might the invertebrate provide the poet? Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s Of Sea traces the light shed by bodies alternatively-structured: A ‘Prickly Cockle’ ‘start[s] light’, the coat of an aphid ‘dusts light’ in ‘Lupin Aphid’, a ‘Murky-legged Legionnaire Fly’ provides a ‘blurt of sun’. A note at the start…
Amaan Hyder