The Bristol Poetry Institute is involved with a number of events coming up this month. We hope you can join us. All are very welcome!
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Price: FreeTime: 18:00 – 19:00Join Samantha Walton, Jason Baskin and Cliff Williamson in this panel discussion, chaired by Madhu Krishnan, as they discuss poems of past and present and consider what it really means to ‘write the city’. This event will be BSL interpreted and live captioned. Presented in partnership with Bristol Ideas and Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival.
- Denise Riley: Poetry and Grief, a conversation (21 April)
Price: FreeTime: 13:00 – 14:00
Dr Lesel Dawson and Dr William Wootten will lead a discussion of the grief expressed in some poems by Denise Riley.
- Annual Reading with Denise Riley (21 April)
Price: FreeTime: 18:00 – 19:00The Bristol Poetry Institute, with the support of the Department of English and School of Modern Languages, are very pleased to present British poet and philosopher Denise Riley as this year’s annual reader. The event will last one hour and comprise of a poetry reading and a question and answer session. A 20-minute book signing with the poet will follow the reading.
- Watch Words: The Furnivals and Text (as) Art in the Long Sixties (22 April)
Price: £5 – £10Time: 10:00 – 18:00Taking John and Astrid Furnivals’ work as a point of inspiration, this conference will explore the intersection of text and art during the long sixties, considering connections to a range of contemporary cultural, political, economic, and technological concerns.
- Multilingual Poetry Reading (23 April)
Price: FreeTime: 15:45 – 16:45A special poetry reading featuring multilingual poets in Bristol. English text versions will be projected in the background. The showcase will be headlined by DL Williams, performing work from their collection Interdimensional Traveller, exploring British Sign Language and English. The event will be BSL interpreted. Presented in partnership with Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival.
- Catalan Poetry Showcase (27 April)
Price: FreeTime: 18:00 – 19:00
The Bristol Poetry Institute, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull and the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, are pleased to invite you to a showcase of recent Catalan poetry. This one-hour event will feature bilingual readings with English translations of four Catalan poets, with the special collaboration of Dominic Jaeckle, writer and editor of Tenement Press.