Emma Must (born 1966) is an

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Biography

Must was awarded the

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in 1995Goldman Environmental Prize
Emma Must
Retrieved 28 November 2007 for her efforts on land protection, particularly her influence on British road building policies through her road protest against the M3 motorway extension at

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, near where she grew up. She went on to work with Alarm UK! (an umbrella group for the nationwide road building protest), Transport 2000 (later renamed Campaign for Better Transport), and the

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. Must studied a PhD in Creative Writing at the

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, Queen's University in Belfast, focusing on eco-poetry and eco-criticism. She has been published in magazines and journals in Ireland and the UK, such as ''Abridged, The Open Ear'' and ''The Poet's Place.'' In 2016 she was named as one of the Rising Generation of poets by ''Poetry Ireland Review''. In 2019 she won the inaugural Environmental Defenders Prize at the Ginkgo Awards for her poem, "Toll". She previously worked as a

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Publications

* ''The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday. ''(Scarborough: Valley Press, December 2022). ISBN 9781915606044 * ''Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe''. Matlock, Derbyshire: Templar Poetry, 2015. . *''The Future always makes me so Thirsty: New Poets from the North of Ireland''. Newtownards, Northern Ireland: Blackstaff, 2016. Edited by

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and Stephen Connolly, with Miriam Gamble, Stephen Sexton, Adam Crothers, and Must. .

Awards

*1995:

*2013: Second prize at the Strokestown International Poetry Awards for ''Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe'' *2015: Templar Portfolio Award *2019: Environmental Defenders Prize at the Ginkgo Awards

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