We are delighted to announce the results of the 2018 BAMS essay prize:
Winner: Ned Hercock (ECR, independent scholar), ‘Hard Objects in George Oppen’s Discrete Series’
Runner up: Eleanor Careless (Sussex), ‘Muriel Rukeyser and the Security of the Imagination: Poetry and Propaganda in 1940s America’
The winner will receive £250 of books and the winning and runner-up essay will both be published in a forthcoming issue of Modernist Cultures.