Poetry School presents Summit: A Landmark Ecopoetry Festival in collaboration with YSP, University of Leeds Poetry Centre, National Landscapes Association and The Laurel Prize.

Summit’s ethos is centred around poetry, community, and action. It will provide a vital space to consider how words, and worlds, are deeply connected, and what role poetry plays as we face up to immense biodiversity losses, habitat destruction, rising carbon emissions and warming temperatures. Summit is more than a festival; it’s a call to action. As we face the escalating climate crisis, we’ll explore the powerful role poetry can play in fostering community, sparking change, and envisioning a sustainable future.

The festival brings together some of the UK’s most celebrated writers and ecological thinkers for two days of performances, workshops, poetry surgeries, and panel discussions at YSP and Leeds University Poetry Centre.

On Saturday 19 October, Summit Festival comes to YSP with a series of bookable poetry workshops, a drop-in family workshop and readings from 2024 Laurel Prize judge Caroline Bird, and poets from the 2024 Laurel Prize long-list.

For details of events on Sunday 20 October at Leeds University Poetry Centre, click here.

Summit Festival Pass

For those wanting to attend more than one workshop, the Summit Festival Pass is available for £55. This gives discounted access to all three adult poetry workshops, including entry to YSP. Book here.