Though the processes of policy engagement have recently rapidly and significantly developed, decision tables are still dominated by those who rarely live the problems people in the UK face. This decreases political engagement, increases mistrust in leaders, and can potentially lead to ineffective and unsustainable policy solutions. Fiction and poetry is currently under-utilised within the policy engagement world, and merely used as a tool of political propaganda, when it can also be used to bring people together, understand lived experiences, and be itself a powerful evidence base for policy makers to gain further insight in order to implement more effective solutions. This research will explore and provide practical recommendations to answering: 1) How can fiction and poetry be utilized by activists (Extinction Rebellion, The Intersectional Environmentalist) and policy makers to critically assess and improve policy processes and outcomes? 2) How can fiction and poetry be used to connect policy and activist agents for better public policy engagement? 2) What impact can/does fiction and poetry have on shaping individual and collective attitudes to key social and environmental issues, and how does this influence political behaviour in policy agents and activists? In critically evaluating the standpoints and perspectives of both activist(s) organisations and policy agents, we can utilise fiction and poetry in a way that allows for the facilitation of a critical space to challenge individual and collective attitudes, further extending fiction and poetry's function in politics to generate more effective, implementable and sustainable policy solutions.