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

By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation
Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation

We’re launching a new poetry award to bring science and creativity closer together. Too often, research can stay locked in academic language – but poetry offers a powerful way to make ideas felt, not just understood. This prize is for UK-based researchers who want to explore the climate crisis through a different lens, blending insight with imagination to reach wider audiences and spark new conversations.

For this competition – the first of its kind for The Conversation – we are inviting academics to…

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