The Filipina American poet Luisa Igloria has won the £5,000 Resurgence prize for eco-poetry, judged by Sir Andrew Motion (chair), Jo Shapcott and Alice Oswald. Motion, the former poet laureate, praised the winning poem for its “authenticity, intensity and cohesion”.

Second prize of £2,000 was awarded to Claire Collison, and third prize of £1,000 to Meredi Ortega.  The awards are made each year for original and previously unpublished poems in English that embrace ecological themes. More details