Laurel Prize workshop: Ecopoetry’s Cutting Edge

Name: Laurel Prize workshop: Ecopoetry’s Cutting Edge – 20th of September
Start: 2025-09-20T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Bradford City Library

Daljit Nagra, poet and 2025 Laurel Prize Judge, walked us through the current landscape of ecopoetry.

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Daljit shared some of the work submitted for the prize from poets across the globe and showcased their various approaches to writing.

In judging 2025’s Laurel Prize, he said, ‘I’ve had the great fortune to read the best poetry about climate crisis that is currently being written’.

This exploratory and practical session was designed to stimulate your creativity. You walked away with a new-found appreciation and knowledge of ecopoetry’s cutting edge.

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.

Credits

BBC Contains Strong Language was a partnership between the BBC, Word Up North and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. It was supported by Arts Council England.