John Cleal’s Door
This door of an old chapel was made by the artist and poet John Cleal and represents his own family. He took up residence in Lower Fishguard in the 1960’s and ran a workshop and gallery and raised his...
View Article“Ways to Be Wilder” Poetry Competition: The winning poems
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Young Poets Network/ People Need Nature “Ways to be Wilder” poetry competition for young people. Over 200 young people from across the world entered the...
View ArticleWinning Poems of the “Ways to be Wilder” Poetry Competition: Summer...
This is the first in a series of pages publishing the winning and highly commended poems in our “ways to be wilder” poetry competition. We’re also publishing our competition Judge, Jen Hadfield’s...
View ArticleNew People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge: “Namedropping”
For many thousands of years, before language was written down, poetry was created, recited and passed on from one generation to another – as a way of remembering great events and people, and of...
View ArticleThe second People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, on...
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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticlePeople Need Nature/Young Poets Network Fourth Poetry Challenge. Winners and...
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...
View ArticlePoetry for the Climate: COP26
Poet Louisa Adjoa Parker running a climate poetry workshop at Damers First School ©Damers School I’ve mentioned before about People Need Nature’s work with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network....
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