A Poem for 2025

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Help us to create a poem for this year's Festival!

What does peace mean to you?

Poet-in-residence Maureen Onwunali is creating a specially commissioned poem for this year's Festival.

She's writing on the subject of peace and utopia and she needs your ideas and suggestions as to what to include. Use the form linked below to give her your thoughts and ideas about peace, communication, and looking to the future.

A special commission by centre:mk in collaboration with IF: Milton Keynes International Festival. 

Click HERE to complete the form.

Maureen Onwunali is a Dublin-born Nigerian published poet and a two-time national slam champion. She is currently a Resident Artist at the Roundhouse in London and has been commissioned, sampled and featured by various musicians, radio shows and organisations including BFI, Pearson, Penguin, BBC Radio London and the Poetry Society. She lives in Milton Keynes.