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Emma Must
Poet
Emma Must is a poet living in Belfast. Formerly a full-time environmental campaigner, in 2021 she completed a PhD in English (Creative Writing) at Queen’s University Belfast, focusing on ecopoetry and ecocriticism. Her debut poetry pamphlet Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe (2015) won the Templar Portfolio Award. Her poem ‘Toll’ won the Environmental Defenders Prize in the 2019 Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry and is included in Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency, edited by Kate Simpson (Valley Press, July 2021) - an Autumn 2021 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and one of 'The best poetry books of 2021' (Guardian, 6 December 2021).
Photo by Malachi O'Doherty.
Spring / Summer 2022
Banshee
Issue #13
Spring/Summer 2022
Includes a new poem from 'The Finds'
Published April 2022
Shared Future News
Winter 2021 / 2022
Under the Radar
Issue 28
January 2022
Includes a new poem 'Bourne'.
What Northern Ireland Means to Me
Shared Future News
Podcast
8 January 2022
Presented by Julia Paul. Photos by Allan Leonard.
The North
Issue 67
January 2022
Includes a new poem 'Scales'.
Trumpet
Issue 10
December 2021
Edited by Mícheál McCann. The issue features poets and poetry in Northern Ireland, 2021. Includes a new poem 'Gongoozling'.
Hold Open the Door
Museum of Literature Ireland
Podcast
December 2021
Poets Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey in conversation. Presented by Professor Margaret Kelleher of UCD. Hold Open the Door is a commemorative anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry and UCD Press, published in 2020.
Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency
2021
'Toll', winner of the Environmental Defenders Prize in the 2019 Ginkgo Prize, is included in Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency, edited by Kate Simpson (Valley Press, July 2021).
- an Autumn 2021 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
- one of 'The best poetry books of 2021', Guardian, 6 December 2021
Contact
Emma acknowledges the kind assistance and support of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
