I am the Universe is an anthology of winning
poems written in response to climate change. Helen Mort asked writers on Young Poets Network to create poems on this theme, inspired by British Romantic poetry and contemporary landscape photography, as part of a collaboration with the University of Leeds. Hundreds of writers across the globe wrote back. This anthology presents the ten poems Helen selected as winners, alongside her own commissioned piece about the changing face of our planet, ‘The Library of Ice’.
Young Poets Network is a key part of The Poetry Society’s mission to support young poets and poetry-lovers. Visit our online platform at youngpoetsnetwork.org.uk to read the resources and writing prompts Helen produced for this project, and to discover further poems, articles, and new writing challenges.
