Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Nadine El-Enany and Roshni Gallagher were the three equal 2024 winners of Bloodaxe’s James Berry Poetry Prize, Britain’s only poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour.
In her debut collection, Belling the Leopard, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. Her poems criss-cross the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s.
The poems of Nadine El-Enany’s debut collection Pelican Daughter are imbued with tenderness and fuelled by a hunger for justice, connection and a more empathic world. She lectures in law and lives in London.
Roshni Gallagher is a poet from Leeds of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Irish heritage who now lives in Edinburgh. In her debut collection, Even the Trees, Roshni explores the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how ecological landscapes and landscapes of the mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory.