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JR Carpenter / Laurel Prize shortlist
JR says: “Weather has long been the subject of small talk and indeed there are many minute observations in Measures of Weather. In light of the climate emergency we’re now living in we also need to ask big and different questions of weather and its measure, and the language we use to render this subject. I am immeasurably grateful to the Laurel Prize judges and organisers for helping to bring the pressing questions in this book to the attention of a much wider audience.”
JR Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds. Their work asks questions about place, displacement, climate, and colonialism, across performance, print, and digital media. Measures of Weather was The Observer’s poetry book of the month, February 2025. https://luckysoap.com
