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Carol Watts / Laurel Prize shortlist
Carol says: “I’m delighted and honoured to be shortlisted for the distinguished Laurel Prize. Mimic Pond is a collection that walked itself together quietly over several years, so it was a welcome surprise! It matters to be recognised and gathered together like this. We are in a time when poetries responding to the environmental crisis and planetary nature are urgently in play, sharing multiple forms of witness but also finding the language and new imaginaries to engage with the future, and all those who inhabit it. It feels like the prize underlines the importance of this, and the community of that writing.”
Carol Watts is a poet who lives in south-east London. Her twelve collections and chapbooks include Mimic Pond, Kelptown and When Blue Light Falls (Shearsman Books), Occasionals and Wrack (Reality Street), Fifty-Six with George Szirtes (Arc), Sundog (Veer), and Dockfield (Equipage). She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.
