Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: The Auditorium, The Storey
Curated and hosted by Litfest’s Poet in Residence, Karen McCarthy Woolf, this event will bring together up to 15 talented poets in a special gala event, in which they will read their poems on this year’s theme of ‘The Rights of Nature’, and Karen will read her own work on this theme together with poems by other poets, old and new, including some from her anthology with Mona Arshi, Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority.
Selected from submissions to this year’s digital poetry map, our chosen poets and Karen will
provide an evening of imaginative surprise and shared community as poetry’s transformative powers allows us to see the world we think we know with fresh and challenging eyes.
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) describes ‘The Rights of Nature’ like this: ‘the recognition that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights. Rights of Nature is about balancing what is good for human beings against what is good for other species, what is good for the planet as a world. It is the holistic recognition that all life, all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined.’
For more information on this year’s Litfest digital poetry map and how to submit your work go to: https://litfest.org/the-rights-of-nature/
Author:
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to English and Jamaican parents. She is the author of four poetry collections and the editor of seven anthologies. Her debut, An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for both the Felix Dennis and Jerwood First Collection Prizes.
Seasonal Disturbances, won second prize in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry in 2017, while Top Doll was shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize. Her latest collection, Unsafe, is published in February 2026.
AGE GUIDANCE 16+
