Ground Provisions by Shauna M. Morgan Wrecking Ball an elegy for her sister

an elegy for her sister and Quinn’s own life in Munich are brought before us in vivid

They are love poems fused with passion and generosity

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

a jar of ashes abandoned in a pub

” These aren’t hopeless poems

Ground Provisions by Shauna M. Morgan Wrecking Ball an elegy for her sisterShortlisted for The Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2026 The poems in Ground Provisions grapple with ideas of heritage and inheritance: what we are given, what is taken away or lost, how we sustain life, and how we make provisions between generationsespecially of women. These poems ask questions about identity in the making of diasporas and the creation of multi ethnic realities. What remains and what is created anew? What emerges at the