21 Sep 2025
Sustainability Panel: Shadows and Light
We live in a time in a time of great loss and great possibility. How can poetry help us balance the two?
Join Imtiaz Dharker and other writers as they explore this era of shadows and light - of grief and hope - can a poem show us how to hold difficult and conflicting emotions?
About the poet
Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharkeris a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, Chancellor of Newcastle University since 2020. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle, London, Manchester, Chester and Hull, as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. She readswith other poets at Poetry Live! events to more than 30,000 students a year. Her sevencollections, all published by Bloodaxe Books, include Over the Moonand the latest, Shadow Reader. Herpoems have featured on radio, television, the London Underground, Manchester billboards and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings and scripts and directs video films, manyof them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India.
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