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Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. Third Prize winner of
the Laurel Prize 2022. What is still wild in us - and is it
recoverable? The poems in Wilder, Jemma Borg's second collection,
are acts of excavation into the deeper and more elusive aspects of
our mental and physical lives. Whether revisiting Dante's forest of
the suicides, experiencing the saturation of new motherhood or
engaging in a boundary-dissolving encounter with a psychedelic
cactus, these meticulous and sensuous poems demonstrate a restless
intelligence, seeking out what we are losing and inviting us to
'break ourselves each against the beauty of the other'. They call
on us to remember ourselves as the animals we are, in connection
with the complex web of life in what Mary Midgley called an
'extended sympathy', and to consider wildness as a process of
becoming, reforming and growth. We do not live in a time when we
can afford denial. Instead, by being willing to enter despair,
might we find what Gary Snyder described as 'the real world to
which we belong' and recover the means to save what we are
destroying?
Jemma Borg was born in Essex. She took a first in zoology at
Oxford, where she also completed a doctorate in evolutionary
genetics. She has worked as a science editor, environmental
campaigner and teacher, and has travelled and lived briefly in
places including Australia, Pakistan and Hong Kong. Her poems have
been widely published in magazines and anthologies, and she has
received prizes including the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry
in 2007 and a residency at the Leighton Artists' Colony at the
Banff Centre in Canada in 2009. She currently lives in East Sussex
with her husband and young son.
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