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5 Key Approaches to Language with the More-than-Human

What happens when we combine human language with fungal, plant, insect, bird, and animal methods of communication? Camilla Nelson who will be teaching her Online course, BECOMING: Transreading Interspecies Empathy & Innovative Poetics, with us this Autumn, gives us some examples and tips for writing poetry from a non-human perspective. FUNGUS Read letters as spores. Choose…

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Laurel Prize Shortlist 2026: Laura Wainwright

Laura Wainwright has been shortlisted for this year’s Laurel Prize 2026! Read more about her and her poem ‘River Roses’ from her collection The Storm’s Flora. About Laura Laura Wainwright is from Newport, South Wales. Her debut poetry collection, The Storm’s Flora (Seren), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2026 and won the Wales…

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6 Ways Poetry Meets Science

How are poetry and science connected, and what can they learn from one another? Zakia Carpenter-Hall, who will be teaching her Online Masterclass, Into Greater Fields of Possibility, with us this Autumn, explores the fascinating intersection where poetry meets science. 1. Exploration Poets and scientists alike often observe the physical world, life within it, human…

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Laurel Prize Shortlist 2026: Jane Lovell

Jane Lovell has been shortlisted for this year’s Laurel Prize 2026! Read more about her and her poem ‘Gyrfalcon’ from her collection Tipping Point. About Jane Winner of the Ginkgo Prize, Jane Lovell explores the shifting relationship between people and the natural world. Her latest collection, Tipping Point, draws on polar exploration, ancestral traditions and ecological change. She…

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Shortlist Announcement: The Laurel Prize 2026

The Poetry School and UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage are delighted to announce the shortlist for The Laurel Prize 2026, rewarding the best nature and environmental poetry books of the year. This prize is funded by Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s honorarium, which he receives annually from the King, and is run by the Poetry School. It…

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