Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar and climber. Her first book-length collection, Burning Season (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), won The Laurel Prize 2023 Best UK First Collection. It was shortlisted for both the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2023 in Scotland's National Book Awards, and the poetry category of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2025, a prize from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) which recognises work with an ecological theme. The title poem from Burning Season won third prize in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2022. Her second book-length collection, Deep Mountain, is due from Bloodaxe in 2027. Some of the poems in Deep Mountain were commissioned by the Laurel Prize for Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and written for the British Academy’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities.
Her other publications include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Anthropocene Poetry, both published by Palgrave Macmillan, and she edited Magma: The Anthropocene Issue. She has also published four pamphlets, including Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017), winner of the Mslexia Women's Pamphlet Competition, and Spikenard (Laureate’s Choice, 2019), which was a poetry recommendation for early 2019 in the London Review of Books.
She has received Northern Writers’ Awards for both memoir and poetry, a Hawthornden Fellowship, a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award, and a Creative Futures Literary Award.
Born in Glasgow in 1986, Yvonne Reddick grew up in Aberdeen, Kuwait City and South East England. She currently lives in Manchester. Her writing reflects the landscapes she has experienced, their environments, and the impacts of the oil industry on many of them.
Yvonne Reddick’s research has revealed that Ted Hughes lobbied politicians about pollution, and that Seamus Heaney sold poems to raise funds for bog conservation. She has published climate change poetry by former oil geologists, and run nature writing workshops for organisations from Warwick Book Festival to the Ramblers. She holds a Readership in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Central Lancashire. Her latest work includes a nature writing project, Fire on Winter Hill, and presenting and writing the wildlife documentary Searching for Snow Hares, in collaboration with filmmaker Aleksander Domanski, shortlisted for the BMC’s Women in Adventure film awards.
Author photo: Alastair Levy
