Award for Daisy Lafarge
Published: 4 July 2017
UofG PhD student Daisy Lafarge has won one of this year's Eric Gregory poetry awards.
UofG PhD student Daisy Lafarge has won one of this year's Eric Gregory poetry awards, writes Zoe Strachan, School of Critical Studies.
The Eric Gregory Awards, for a collection by poets under the age of 30, were founded in 1960 by the late Dr Eric Gregory for the encouragement of young poets. It is extremely prestigious and a real indicator of a great career ahead. Daisy's unpublished collection is called Anywhere Except Trees.
One of the awards judges, Imtiaz Dharker, said of Daisy's work: "(She is) unafraid of risks, taking an uncompromising stand against the lyric and the expected."
Daisy studied Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently completing her PhD on Creative Writing, co-supervised by Geography and Earth Sciences and Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow.
Her first pamphlet, "understudies for air", is being published by Sad Press. Daisy's work has appeared in Poetry London, the White Review, the anthology of Best British Poetry 2015 and the upcoming Poetry Review.
First published: 4 July 2017
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