We are delighted to announce that this year’s Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading will be delivered by Denise Riley.
[Update 12/12/22: This event has unfortunately been cancelled due to illness and we are working to reschedule in 2023.]
Over the last five decades, Denise Riley has steadily acquired the reputation of being, in the words of Simon Armitage, ‘one of the best poets around’. Sarah Perry, writer of The Essex Serepent, and Max Porter, writer of Grief is a Thing With Feathers, each called her 2016 volume, Say Something Back ‘the best thing I’ve read in ages’, while Robert Macfarlane declared the book’s ‘heart-piercing elegy to her son Jacob, “A Part Song”: the most powerful contemporary poem I’ve read in years’. 2022 sees the much anticipated publication of its successor, Lurex. The evening promises to be enjoyable, thought provoking and moving.
Admissions to the 2022 Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading are free but booking will be essential.