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International Poetry Prize for Local Poet
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David Canning, a poet based in Wray in the Forest of Bowland, has won the Ginkgo National Landscape Prize for Outstanding Poem of the British
TLandscape, for his poem The Bowland Sheep.
he Ginkgo Prize is a major “The Forest of Bowland is a very special international award for place, and I wanted to capture something ecopoetry, funded by the Edward of its magic. But the poem is also about
Landscape Prize is sponsored by the National Landscapes Association and aims to recognise poems that convey the wonder of landscape in all its forms.
Talking about his poem, David said;
Goldsmith Foundation and organised how I feel about it when I am not there, as by The Poetry School. The British I often have to work away from home for
days at a time.”
“Sheep are a major part of the agricultural economy in this part of the UK and this made them a great symbol of the vital co- dependence between humans and nature, and why we need to look after the place and protect it for future generations.”