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People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Fourth Poetry Challenge. Winners and highly commended poems in “Poems to solve the Climate Crisis.”

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 4th People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, set by poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. Louisa asked young poets across the world to write about nature and the climate. This is particularly relevant as we head towards the make or break global climate conference COP26, taking place in […]

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New People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Poetry Competition Launched

I’m delighted to say that we have launched our fourth People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry competition. It’s called Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis and the challenge has been written by West Country poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. We’re challenging young poets to respond to the climate crisis and especially in the run up to the […]

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The second People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, on “Namedropping”. Winners announced.

The Poetry Society’s platform for young poetry-lovers, Young Poets Network, and charity People Need Nature have teamed up for the second year running to challenge young writers to explore their relationship with nature. The free-to-enter challenge received over 100 impressive entries from poets aged 8 to 25 from countries as far afield as Canada, New […]

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