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The Home Child
by Liz Berry
Rathbones Folio Prize · 2024 · WinnerRathbones Folio Prize · 2023 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2024 | Winner |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2023 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Liz Berry's second collection is a sequence of poems in the voice of a girl shipped from the Black Country to Canada as part of the Home Children migration scheme, in which around 100,000 British working-class children were sent to work as farm labourers and domestic servants in Canada between 1869 and 1948. The collection won the overall Rathbones Folio Prize and its poetry category in 2024.
About the Author
Liz Berry is a British poet born in the Black Country in 1980. She studied English at Birmingham University and has worked as a primary school teacher. Her debut collection Black Country (2014, Chatto & Windus) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was one of the most acclaimed poetry debuts of the decade. Read more →
