Selina Nwulu: Black Climates
Selina Nwulu, former Young People’s Laureate for London, joins us with her book, Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures, which uses her poetic and skilful voice to directly address Black British readers who have been previously ignored in mainstream environmental conversations.
Hear as Selina talks to writer, stylist and consultant Aja Barber about subjects such as air pollution, prison ecology, disability justice, migration, food, nature, community care, and radical imagination and providing the tools to envisage more equitable futures.
This will be a fully masked event to protect our disabled and immunocompromised audience members. Marginalised people have the highest rates of long covid and, in line with the themes of the book, we want the event to be accessible to everyone and part of collective care in the face of climate breakdown.
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Members Priority Booking: 9am, Thu 19 Feb
Tickets on General Sale: 10am, Thu 26 Feb
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**Stage timings are subject to change
Selina Nwulu
Selina Nwulu is a poet and essayist. Her work has been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films and anthologies, including the critically acclaimed New Daughters of Africa, and more recently Nature Matters, an environmental anthology written by the global majority. Her first chapbook collection, The Secrets I Let Slip was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She has performed internationally and her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, German and Polish, as well as exhibited at Southbank, Somerset House, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, on Warsaw metro and in New York. Her latest work, Drawn Breath, Exhaled Frequencies was exhibited in 2025 as part of a sound installation at Locust Projects, a contemporary arts space in Florida, U.S.
She was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-6, an award that showcases literary talent across the capital and shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2019. She is also a 2021 Arts Award Finalist for Environmental Writing. Her full-length collection, A Little Resurrection, also a Poetry Book Society recommendation, was published with Bloomsbury in 2022. It was an Irish Times book of the year and a poem from the collection was highly commended for the 2023 Forward Prizes.
Her debut essay collection, Black Climates, is an exploration of Blackness and climate breakdown and was published by Vintage in August 2025.
Aja Barber
Aja Barber is a writer, stylist and consultant whose work deals with the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape. Her book, Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism was published in 2022.
