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Rialto Nature and Place Competition
The award ceremony for the 2024 Nature and Place Poetry Competition took place in Cambridge on August 14 hosted by Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The ULPC is one of the partners in the competition and this year's chief judge was our colleague Zaffar Kunial. (Other members of the Centre, including Matt Howard, Kate Simpson, Jon...
Safiya Kinshasha Shortlisted for Forward Best First Collection Award
Congratulations to Safiya Kinshasha whose first collection Cane, Corn, and Gully was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2023. Safiya gave a performance of part of the book at the Forward Prizes ceremony in Leeds earlier this week. Safiya is currently a PhD student working on an interdisciplinary project which...
Forward Success for former Poetry Centre Colleagues
Congratulations to former Poetry Centre colleagues Jason Allen-Paisant and Malika Booker (Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry) who won major prizes in this year's Forward Awards ceremony held at the West Yorkshire Playhouse here in Leeds. Jason's Self-Portrait as Othello won Best Collection and Malika 'Libation' won Best Individual Poem.
Events
SUMMIT: A Poetry School Festival
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre is co-hosting Summit: A Poetry School Festival, a landmark ecopoetry, nature, and climate writing...
Midsummer Muse
Image: Andrew Dunn Midsummer Muse: Readings by Poets with links to the University of Leeds Poetry Centre Join the...
Launch of Matt Howard's Broadlands
Join us on the evening of May 8th for the launch of Matt Howard's second collection, Broadlands (Bloodaxe, 2024). Everyone...