Spiritlands by Sarah Wardle Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 and shaped our islands through

and shaped our islands through time

focusing our attention on the joys of family and art

21st-century medium feels revolutionary

These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity

Spiritlands by Sarah Wardle Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 and shaped our islands throughSpiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural. On the one hand, this is poetry about a personal geography, an eclectic landscape, space in which to be oneself; on the other, these are poems all about hope, life and nature, about belonging to the whole world and asserting ones right to a place and voice in it. Spiritlands gives us a vivid account of the poets grandfathers injuries in the First World War. Despite