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The village's new wildflower patch - interview for Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
"#TeamWilder encourages people to improve their local area for wildlife, and that’s exactly what Emily Hunt has been doing through the...
Emily Hunt
Feb 271 min read
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Young People's Nature Writing Camp
Organising and hosting the first Young People's Nature Writing Camp with Andrew Millham and the Cameron Bespolka Trust was the most...
Emily Hunt
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Chris and Megan's Night of Nature
I was really pleased to open Chris and Megan's Night of Nature with a bespoke poem about the Hawk Conservancy Trust . It was a wonderful...
Emily Hunt
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Edge Hill
This is one of the poems I entered in the Warwickshire Young Poet Laureate Competition, and performed in the final - for the competition...
Emily Hunt
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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Brandon Marsh Nature Writing Workshop and Walk
My first workshop took place at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, in conjunction with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. It was open to 11-18 year...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Watching the St Ives turnstones
The town is quiet, almost unrecognisable to when I usually visit in summer.  Christmas lights are strung along the pier, the harbour...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Slug trails
This piece was published in Issue One (Spring 2022) of Love Wild Gardens, a gardening for nature magazine - read more about Love Wild...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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A youth perspective on COP28 - published
I interviewed my fellow SEEd Youth Board member Keira Salata to provide a youth perspective on COP28 for SEEd's newsletter. COP28, the...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20244 min read
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Are young people really disassociated with nature? - published
"Emily speculates on the reasons why young people don't seem to have much interest in nature and why a Natural History GCSE will be...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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The Green Gallery - published
I was really pleased to be invited to write a blog for the Cameron Bespolka Trust about my youth engagement project. My article about The...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Nature: The Next Generation - published
Youth engagement with nature - why do most lose interest at secondary school? What can be done to change this? I explore this in my...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Plastic Fields Forever
I wrote this blog in 2021. This is the plastic I picked up during a ten-minute walk along the edge of a ploughed field: Shocking isn't...
Emily Hunt
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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A Living Symphony - Commission
I was really pleased to be commissioned to write about Compton Verney's wildlife, inspired by the Living Symphonies art installation....
Emily Hunt
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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When I was afraid for the future, I made meadows - Commission
I read my commissioned poem "When I was afraid for the future I made meadows" at Child Friendly Warwickshire's annual Youth Conference,...
Emily Hunt
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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The Skylark's First Flight - Commission
I was commissioned by Shout Out for the Arts Warwickshire (https://shoutoutforthearts.co.uk/) to write a poem on the theme of pathways. I...
Emily Hunt
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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Birchwood Primary Commission
Following my Polesworth commission, I was asked to use words from students at Birchwood Primary School to create a poem about how the...
Emily Hunt
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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We Belong Here Commission
My first commission involved collecting words about Polesworth from the community and creating a poem using them. This was quite...
Emily Hunt
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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Kissing Before the Buses Go
Click here to see my reading of Kissing Before the Buses Go at the Young Poets' Takeover, The Verve Poetry Festival.
Emily Hunt
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Bat Detecting
My poem Bat Detecting was awarded 2nd Place in Guernsey Literary Festival's Young People's Competition 2023, judged by Jackie Kay.
Emily Hunt
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Jackdaw Gifts
Winner of Guernsey Literary Festival 2022 judged by Michael Symmons Roberts. This poem is based on my experience rehabilitating a...
Emily Hunt
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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