A landmark ecopoetry, nature and climate writing festival.
Summit: A Poetry School Festival is a landmark ecopoetry, nature and climate writing festival. Its inaugural edition is in collaboration with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, the Laurel Prize, the National Poetry Centre, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and is supported by Arts Council England, National Landscapes Association, and Leeds City Council.
The festival will provide a vital space to consider how words, and worlds, are deeply and irrevocably connected, exploring what role poetry plays as we face up to immense biodiversity losses, habitat destruction, rising carbon emissions, and warming temperatures. Across two days, Summit brings together some of the UK’s most celebrated writers for performances, workshops, surgeries, and panel discussions.
Speakers include Rachael Allen, Simon Armitage, Khairani Barokka, Caroline Bird, Sean Borodale, Niall Campbell, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, JR Carpenter, Ella Duffy, Antony Dunn, Matthew Hollis, Matt Howard, Zaffar Kunial, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Helen Mort, Caleb Parkin, Alycia Pirmohamed, Yvonne Reddick, John Wedgwood Clarke, and John Whale.
The inaugural edition of the event will take place 19 and 20 October at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, respectively.
Download the full programme here: Summit Festival Programme
Tickets
Festival entry will be sold separately for Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October.
Tickets for the Saturday are sold through the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Tickets for the Sunday are sold through Poetry School.
Festival entry, on both days, includes automatic entry into readings and panel discussions. Workshops and surgeries are sold at additional cost, and should be booked in advance.
Tickets: Summit: A Poetry School Festival • Poetry School
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