Poems of family, love and travel win Biggs Family Prize
The 2013 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry has been awarded to Morgan Bach.
The 2013 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry has been awarded to Morgan Bach, for her collection Some of us eat the seeds.
Morgan has just completed the MA in Creative Writing (Page stream). This award recognises her work as one of the most promising poetry folios produced in this year's MA workshop.
In their exploration of the limits of family, travel and love, her poems walk the knife-edge between competing imperatives: escape and homesickness, independence and inheritance, longing and disappointment.
The Biggs Family Prize in Poetry has been has been awarded annually since 2006 to recognise the potential of a graduating poet and support their further development.