Zócalo Public SquareJanuary Poetry Curator Emma Must – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 January Poetry Curator Emma Must https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/01/05/january-poetry-curator-emma-must/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/01/05/january-poetry-curator-emma-must/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:01:00 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=140593 Emma Must is a poet living in Belfast. Formerly a full-time environmental campaigner, she was awarded the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe for her efforts towards land conservation. She has a PhD in English from Queen’s University Belfast, where she focused on ecopoetry and ecocriticism. Her first full-length poetry collection The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday has been longlisted for the 2023 Laurel Prize and Highly Commended in the 2023 Forward Prizes for Poetry. Zócalo’s poetry curator for January, Must chatted with us about walking along the River Lagan, her earliest creative writing memory, and the inspiring Irish spoken-word film Ó Bhéal. 

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]]> Emma Must is a poet living in Belfast. Formerly a full-time environmental campaigner, she was awarded the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe for her efforts towards land conservation. She has a PhD in English from Queen’s University Belfast, where she focused on ecopoetry and ecocriticism. Her first full-length poetry collection The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday has been longlisted for the 2023 Laurel Prize and Highly Commended in the 2023 Forward Prizes for Poetry. Zócalo’s poetry curator for January, Must chatted with us about walking along the River Lagan, her earliest creative writing memory, and the inspiring Irish spoken-word film Ó Bhéal. 

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