[To] the Last [Be] Human by Jorie Graham
PBS Autumn Special Commendation 2022 Chen Chen ‘Crafted

‘Crafted

and Royal Holloway University of London in partnership with Counterpoints Arts

‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger

which she titled Prin Apo Ton Lyrismo (Before Lyricism)

A change in the world

[To] the Last [Be] Human by Jorie Graham <b><br>PBS Autumn Special Commendation 2022</b> Chen Chen ‘Crafted[To] the Last [Be] Human collects the four remarkable books Jorie Graham has published with Carcanet since 2008, Sea Change, Place, fast and Runaway, a tetralogy in which her signature line and attention to our Anthropocene moment emerge, uniquely, radically, as the songs of our global climate. In his introduction to this book, Robert Macfarlane writes, The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric