Yvonne Reddick reads for Poets & Players at the IABF on 28 October 2023
Channel: Poets & Players
Date: 2023-10-31

Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar, and climber. She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award, a Northern Writer’s Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. Her first book-length collection, Burning Season, is published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and won the Laurel Prize for Best UK First Collection of Ecopoetry. Its title poem was a prizewinner in the Gingko Prize for Ecopoetry 2023. Her other publications include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Anthropocene Poetry.