Nevertheless, she attempts to record the connection between man and nature without justifying or condemning it. Some poems are somber, reflective pieces and others are light hearted celebrations of the flora and fauna of her environment. Awards Nigh-No-Place won the TS Eliot Prize for poetry in 2008 when Hadfield was 30, making her the youngest female winner of the prize and the youngest overall until Ocean Vuong won in 2017 at the age of 29. Andrew Motion, then the British poet laureate and chair of the judges panel (Motion, Lavinia Greenlaw, and Tobias Hill), said "Nigh-No-Place shows that she [Hadfield] is a remarkably original poet near the beginning of what is obviously going to be a distinguished career". References 2008 poetry books British poetry collections T. S. Eliot Prize-winning works Bloodaxe Books books