Burning Season
Winner of The Laurel Prize 2023 Best UK First Collection, Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance.The book combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history. This family story forms the bedrock ofBurning Season.
Burning Season Here, too, are poems that celebrate nature’s vibrant resilience: planting oak saplings, spotting rare ptarmigan in the Highland winter, imagining life in an underwater city.
Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor and ecopoetry scholar. 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. She is also a book critic for The Times Literary Supplement. She now lives in Manchester.
