The Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Competition Readings
- 👤 Speaker: Helen Mort and prize winners 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 07 July 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
- 📍 Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ
Abstract
Join us on Monday 7 July for a free evening of poetry featuring the Rialto Nature and Place Competition winners reading their prize-winning poems live from the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge.
This year’s judge, Helen Mort will also give a headline reading. Helen is a poet, novelist and non fiction writer. Her poetry collections Division Street, No Map Could Show Them and The Illustrated Woman are published by Chatto & Windus. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature and the Banff Grand Prize in Canada. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Doors will open at 6.30pm with readings beginning at 7pm. Drinks and snacks will be provided!
Find out more and register on our website: https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/event/the-rialto-nature-place-poetry-competition-readings/
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Events series.
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Helen Mort and prize winners 
Monday 07 July 2025, 18:30-20:00