laurel prize 2025 Articles

Open Call: Poet-in-Residence at the Laurel Prize Weekend 2025

Poetry School invites applications for an early or mid-career poet to be our Poet-in-Residence at the Laurel Prize weekend, on 19 and 20 September 2025. The Laurel Prize was established by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in 2019 in association with Poetry School. It is an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental…

Posted in Open Call 1 week ago by

Beth Evans (Poetry School)

Summit Festival with Poet in Residence, Sammy Weaver

To celebrate our launch of the Laurel Prize 2025, we are proud to present a beautiful blog and four stunning new poems from our Summit Poet in Residence, Sammy Weaver. In October 2024, over two hundred people and over twenty leading poets gathered for Summit, our festival devoted to ecopoetry and nature writing, with our…

Posted in Blog 5 months ago by

Beth Evans (Poetry School)