We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, the society’s postgraduate essay competition, for 2024 is Hannah Green with an essay titled ‘Mortgaged to the Grasping Soil: Land and Labour in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas’. Hannah, who recently graduated with a Masters in Modern Literature and Culture from King’s College, wins £250 and a year’s membership to the society. The essay – which judges described as providing an ‘illuminating’ and ‘compelling’ analysis of Thomas’s poetry with important insights into eco-criticism, poetics, class and capital – will now go forward for publication in Key Words. Congratulations Hannah!
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