Judge Cal Flyn likens Anna Selby’s winning poem to Seamus Heaney and Edwin Morgan
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024, judged anonymously by Cal Flyn, has been awarded to three outstanding pieces of nature writing in prose and poetry.
Selby is a lecturer in engaged ecology and regenerative economics at Schumacher College in Devon. She is a former Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry judge and editor at Hazel Press, and is currently pursuing a PhD on empathy, ecology and plein air poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
“Through good luck and accident I got to follow the career path that nine-year-old me wanted,” Walton said. “But still I feel clueless. A paper was published this week announcing the global extinction of the slender-billed curlew. Why is there no functioning nature ethic in our society? I don’t know. I am not sure I believe in a lost connection to nature that our ancestors had, in an Arcadian past.
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