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The Conversation UK Climate Poetry Award 2026

The climate crisis is also a communications challenge: how do we tell stories that move people, not just to fear the future, but to imagine and build a better one? With our Climate Poetry Award, The Conversation is inviting academics across the UK to write a poem inspired by climate change research.

Introducing The Conversation Climate Poetry Award – for UK and Ireland-based academics

Anna Turns, The Conversation and Anna Walker, The Conversation

Ten compelling poems about climate change – chosen by our experts

Jack Reid, University of Limerick; Amy Wilcockson, Queen Mary University of London; Clodagh Philippa Guerin, University of Limerick; Ellen Howley, Dublin City University; Janine Bradbury, University of York; Julie Meril Gardner, Nottingham Trent University; Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford; Katie MacLean, University of Stirling; Sally Flint, University of Exeter, and Steve Waters, University of East Anglia