In judging this year’s prize, he says, ‘I’ve had the great fortune to read the best poetry about climate crisis that is currently being written’.

This exploratory and practical session is designed to stimulate your creativity and you can expect to walk away with a new-found appreciation and knowledge of ecopoetry’s cutting edge. New & experienced poets welcome, please bring a laptop or pen & paper if possible.

Daljit Nagra is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2021 – 2025. He is on the Council of Society of Authors, a PBS New Generation Poet, presenter of the weekly Poetry Extra on Radio 4 Extra. Daljit has five poetry collections, all with Faber & Faber, which have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award, and been shortlisted for the Costa Prize and twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His latest collection indiom is a Poetry Book Society Choice. He has an MBE for Services to Literature.