Poet Daljit Nagra to judge this year’s Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition

January 29, 2021

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CCI’s Arts, Science and Conservation Programme are pleased to share the news that Radio 4 & 4 Extra’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence, Daljit Nagra, will be judging the 2021 Nature and Place Poetry Competition.

Daljit, who is on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature has had his prize-winning poetry published in The New Yorker, the LRB and the TLS, and his journalism in the FT and The Guardian.

The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition is a collaboration between the RSPB, BirdLife International, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the poetry magazine The Rialto.

The 2021 Competition is now open for entries and poems that deal with any aspect of nature and place are invited. The closing date is 1st March 2021.

You can find out more about the Competition and Daljit’s poetry collections here.

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