The Rialto Nature and Place Competition winners event with Zaffar Kunial

July 16, 2024

Categorised: News

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring The Rialto Nature and Place Competition winners reading their prize winning poems and a headline reading from this year’s judge, Zaffar Kunial at Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Zaffar Kunial was born in Birmingham and lives in Hebden Bridge. He is a recipient of Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize and his first poetry collection, Us, published by Faber & Faber in 2018 appeared on a number of shortlists including the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. His second collection, England’s Green, was The Times Poetry Book of the Year and was placed 2nd in the Laurel Prize for environmental or nature poetry.

Doors open at 6.30pm – wine and juice provided!

Please register to attend for free on eventbrite here

If you are unable to join this event in person and would like instead to watch online via Zoom, please do not book a ticket through this Eventbrite page. Instead, please email Matt Howard at Matt.Howard@rspb.org.uk to register for the Zoom link.

The Rialto working in association with the RSPB, BirdLife international, Cambridge Conservation Initiative & The University of Leeds Poetry Centre.

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