stdClass Object ( [ID] => 21271 [post_author] => 23 [post_date] => 2020-12-04 13:00:19 [post_date_gmt] => 2020-12-04 13:00:19 [post_content] =>[post_title] => disappearing from victoria before the fire alert hits catastrophic [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => disappearing-from-victoria-before-the-fire-alert-hits-catastrophic [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2020-12-04 13:00:05 [post_modified_gmt] => 2020-12-04 13:00:05 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/?post_type=poems&p=21271 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => poems [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw [meta_data] => stdClass Object ( [wpcf-published-in] => [wpcf-date-published] => 2020 [wpcf-summary-description] => This poem is the first-prize winner of the People Need Nature challenge, set and judged by Gboyega Odubanjo on Young Poets Network in 2020. April Egan writes about her winning poem: “I grew up in Australia. In January, I saw it consumed by fire while I was cold and stagnant on the Jurassic Coast. Fires were something we were used to, and they were almost never serious enough to make international news – and now it was all anybody spoke about. Gippsland, Bendigo, Mornington, the places I hadn’t mentioned by name for years and kept like special secrets to myself were now being discussed by my classmates. It was like a funeral for a person they’d only half-known and one I’d loved entirely. I don’t tend to write about nature, but as I did, I felt both more sure in my national identity as an Australian and more connected to my experience of life. It is a love poem foremost, for the undefinable magic of Australia, its mystery and majesty, beyond dangerous fauna and endless heat, but also a poem of dread, of grief, and the precarious ether all balance on as summer approaches once more.” [wpcf-rights-information] => [wpcf-poem-award] => 1st prize, People Need Nature challenge [wpcf_pr_belongs] => ) [poet_data] => stdClass Object ( [ID] => 16674 [forename] => [surname] => [title] => April Egan [slug] => april-egan [content] => April was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2020. She is the overall winner of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition in the secondary category, and is the first-prize winner of Gboyega Odubanjo's People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020. April is commended in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize. ) )
stdClass Object ( [ID] => 16674 [forename] => [surname] => [title] => April Egan [slug] => april-egan [content] => April was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2020. She is the overall winner of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition in the secondary category, and is the first-prize winner of Gboyega Odubanjo's People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020. April is commended in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize. )