Calling all artists, photographers, and writers, aged 12-24! 🎨📸✍️

Showcase your connection to nature in our Art Competition!

Judged by experts in their fields alongside our Youth Panel, winners will receive prizes at #WildWeekend on Mill Sq on 2 June. bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-na…

Want to share your own key question about the future of poetry/art and AI?

Please use this form, we'd love to hear your opinions: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XeLKi…

Bristol Poetry Institute Brigstow Institute Pervasive Media Studio

Follow Hot Poets: They're bringing poetry and science together to imagine a better possible future. hotpoets.org

Our Apples and Snakes retreat is a highlight of the Lyra Festival programme and this year was no exception, a free, full day of workshop sessions, this one always sells out first!
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📸 Tim Woolf

Page Against the Machine A panel discussion featuring poets and technology experts from Lyra’s new poetry/AI project.
Presented in partnership with Bristol Poetry Institute supported by University of Bristol's Brigstow Institute and Pervasive Media Studio
📸- Sam Cavender

Throwback to our Forward Prize Performances and Panel!
Thanks so much to Malika Booker, momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️ & Bohdan Piasecki Piasecki for sharing your incredible work
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📸 Sam Cavender

Back Stories of the Afro Wind presented in partnership with Ashesi University University and Bath Spa University - an excellent night had by all!

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Calling all Somerset-based poets! Our final Clevedon workshop takes place this coming Saturday (12.30-2.30pm) and will be led by the wonderful Saili Katebe ✍️

Tickets are available below from just £3, and everybody is welcome.

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An earnest appreciation to Prof John Strachan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Enterprise, Bath Spa University, & Ashesi University for the good things! & for Danny & team who played massive roles towards Bristol Poetry Festival. It was tender to begin memorable adventures with him at tennis.

Last month's show 🌟an absolute dream to host
Salena Godden, Nikita Gill & Cecilia Knapp for our
Bristol Poetry Festival special at Bristol Beacon. A huge thank
you to all involved and everyone who attended.

We've got two great announcements coming up this
week! 👀 stay tuned

V6_Bristol student Altoma has had a hugely successful year as @lyrafest Bristol Young City Poet - we can't wait to see what the future holds for this talented young person! Read her story here: montpschool.org/631/news-blog/… @venturerstrust @bristoledu

This was a great event Bristol Poetry Festival

THANK YOU! 🥳
Thank you for making Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival 2024 so wonderful. Seeing our audience engaging with and enjoying poetry at our events makes it all worth while! Dont miss our community collaborations: lyrafest.com/community-coll…

Thank you to our volunteers - we couldn't have done it without you ❤️
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Thanks Bristol Poetry Festival & Watershed for having us on Saturday as part of *Translation & Displacement*, to Stephen Watts & Poetry Translation Centre for organising & chairing, & to Al-Saddiq Al-Radd, Sabrin Hasbun & Ibrahim Hirsi for gorgeous, stirring multilingual performances. A grand afternoon!

Word by Word have a new workshop Join artist, writer and filmmaker Asmaa Jama for a workshop exploring land and climate anxiety, through words, performance and sound.
Sunday 28th April | 3pm - 5pm | Watershed, Bristol
Pay as You Feel:
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Last night, I slurped fruit from the tree of awesomeness at Bristol Poetry Festival with Alice Oswald, Rachel Long and Caroline Bird. Today, I’m off to Manchester as I have free tickets for Rick Astley. It certainly is a weekend.

Left tonight's #poetry reading at St George's Bristol dumbstruck, with my hand over my mouth to stop my heart jumping out. Not my first case of Alice Oswalditis. Similar symptoms to Cohenitis and Bowieitis. Alice Oswald is right up there. Bristol Poetry Festival

O the magnificence of an evening spent Bristol Poetry Festival listening to the dulcet, empyreal tones of #AliceOswald & Rachel Long plus the Puck like performance of the magnificent Caroline Bird with bestie Torriedeweywhitcroft

#poetry #poetry lovers #performancepoetry #EtherealVisions

…good discussion about the overlap between #poet ry and #AI . An #ontological question remains: where does the poetry #happen ? Does it emerge in the #poet , the #reader , the #text , the uttered #words , all of them, their links, none?…
Deanna Rodger
Michael
Watershed
Bristol Poetry Festival