Laurel Prize Workshop: Ecopoetry’s Cutting Edge
Daljit Nagra, celebrated poet and 2025 Laurel Prize Judge, walks us through the current landscape of ecopoetry.
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”. Daljit will share some of the work submitted for the prize from poets across the globe and showcasing their various approaches to writing. 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 and experienced poets welcome.
Please bring a laptop or pen and paper if possible.
1 x session, running 2pm–4pm (BST), on 20 Sept 2025. This workshop will take place at Centenary Square, Bradford BD1 1SD.
For more information on this year’s ceremony please visit The Laurel Prize 2025.
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About Daljit Nagra 
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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 TS Eliot Prize. His latest collection indiom is a Poetry Book Society Choice. He has an MBE for Services to Literature.
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