Feeling the Pressure

Paul Munden is the editor of Feeling the Pressure (British Council), in which some of the UK’s best contemporary poets respond to the threat of climate change, and scientists provide the background to this potential global catastrophe. He will be joined by fellow contributors Michael Symmons Roberts, Jean Sprackland and Richard Dawson for an afternoon session of readings and discussion. Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, and twice for the TS Eliot Prize. Jean Sprackland is the author of three books of poetry, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. Richard Dawson is a senior research associate at the Earth Systems Engineering Group at Newcastle University and with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

* Joint tickets for the Dystopian Novel Debate and Feeling the Pressure can be purchased for the special price of £7 / £4 concessions.