Aryamati Prize Runner Up: Julian Bishop
- Belle Kenyon
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 2, 2020
Meet the Poet...
Julian Bishop is a former television journalist living in North London who is a member of the collective group Poets For The Planet. He’s had a lifelong interest in ecology and worked for a time as Environment Reporter for BBC Wales. He’s also a member of Climate Cultures https://climatecultures.net and recently wrote a blog about how lockdown has helped many of us “rediscover” nature.
A former runner-up in the Ginkgo Prize for Eco Poetry, he’s been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and is one of four poets featured in a 2020 pamphlet called Poems For The Planet. He’s recently had poems in The Morning Star, XR’s Rebel Talk, online journal Irisi, Finished Creatures magazine and the first issue of The Alchemy Spoon.
Contact: twitter @julianbpoet
Poems For The Planet available at: https://www.maggiebutt.co.uk/poets-for-the-planet

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