This Thursday is going to be amazing! First of all we have our free BPI reading with Suzannah V. Evans and Gregory Leadbetter: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gregory-le... Later on, Raise the Bar has this amazing line up: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/arn...

THURSDAY THURSDAY only two days away because of the bank holiday (this overly rhyming post doesn't scan, but we'd love to see you Thursday anyway!)

We have a couple of great events coming up in May -- free entry and open to all! First up, a reading with Suzannah V. Evans and Gregory Leadbetter on the 7th. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gregory-le...

Join us on 25 April at Lyra Fest! Poets Deanna Rodger and shakara, plus technologist Vincent Baidoo, present their findings from Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry, in conversation with guest poet Hannah Silva. Chaired by Michael Marcinkowski (King’s College London). www.lyrafest.com#e150159

East Bristol Books is hosting a great reading next week, on Tuesday 17th, with friends of the Bristol Poetry Institute. We'd love to see you there! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Fantastic reading by Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social last night. It’s rare for my attention to be corralled and focused for five minutes, let alone over an hour, but these poems managed it. I made my way home in that holy space that is the aftermath of a great poetry experience.

Still a few places left for tomorrow's free Annual Reading with Natlaie Diaz! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual....

We have over 500 people already planning to join us for the Natalie Diaz Annual Reading later this month. But we booked the big (technically "Great") Hall, so don't worry, we have room for more. Book your place now. We can't wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual...

We have over 500 people already planning to join us for the Natalie Diaz Annual Reading later this month. But we booked the big (technically "Great") Hall, so don't worry, we have room for more. Book your place now. We can't wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual...

✨ COMING UP: Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social annual reading! Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear one of the most celebrated contemporary poets read in the UK! 📆 Tues 17 Feb, 6.30-7.30pm 📍 Wills Memorial Building 🎟️ brnw.ch/21wZq5c (free!)

Tickets for Natalie Diaz on 17 Feb. going like hot cakes. Book your free ticket while you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual...

We are up to 380 bookings now. Bristol really loves poetry, and we love that. Can't wait to see you all soon (+ more room still to join us for those yet to book!)

We've had 225 bookings (!!) in just days of announcing Natalie Diaz's Annual Reading -- make sure reserve your place now and join us on 17 February!

We're excited to announce this years BPI Annual Reading will be delivered by Natalie Diaz, 6.30pm 17 February. Free, but booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual....

We are looking forward to Translated By, Bristol’s launch of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Awono, a unique anthology centring around 19 translations of Jean-Claude Awono’s poems “Le Poème de Yambacongo”. Hope to see you there! translatedbybristol.com/programme/#e...

✨ COMING UP: Translated By, Bristol is a new festival celebrating translators and translated literature, taking place in Bristol from 12-25 May To celebrate, here are two events to look out for involving @bristoluni.bsky.social colleagues [1/3]

The @lyrafest.com returns to Bristol this weekend until Sunday 4 May! ✨ Expect readings, discussions, walking tours and so much more across six leading arts venues To celebrate, here are a few events we're particularly looking forward to involving @bristoluni.bsky.social colleagues [1/4]

TOMORROW!

TODAY Wednesday 9 April Multilingual Poetry & Translation at East Bristol Books. Bristol-based Chilean poet Andrés Anwandter, Brazilian poet Rosane Carneiro, US poet and Rebecca Kosick, and British poet Dan Eltringham, will be reading and discussing the craft of translating poetry at 6 pm. FREE!

Adalber Salas introduces Isolario April 1st 2025 5.30 - 7:00pm Lecture Theatre 3, Arts Complex, Woodland Road An introduction of Isolario/Islarium, a dual Spanish-English collection of poems by the Venezuelan poet. To reserve your free tickets: maxminervas.co.uk/collections/...

The Department of French at Bristol University's annual Wheeler Distinguished Lecture 2025 will be given by the prize-winning translator, poet, and academic Dr Stephen Romer (Oxford), on Wednesday 5 March at 1pm. His title is Traduire l'affect: the filler, the fulsome and the wilful

✨ NEXT FRIDAY ✨ Prof Philip Terry will talk about his discovery and translation of Jean-Luc Champerret’s ‘decoding’ of the Lascaux cave paintings as poetry, with Dr Michael Malay. In collaboration with @bristolpoetry.bsky.social and @uobrisceh.bsky.social. ⏰11AM, February 7th 📍Arts Complex, G33

To clarify, it is not taking place today as in 29 January, but is *about* Dante today, now, in our moment! (Taking place February 6!)

I've just reviewed this book for Tears in the Fence, and I have just sorted out my own version of Dante, early version of which abandoned here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-a...

We hope you can all join us for this wonderful event on Dante Today! Professor Philip Terry (University of Essex) will read some cantos from his recent translation and relocating of Dante’s Purgatorio, where the poet and his guide climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS).

It's true we're here!

📢 ON THURSDAY: Join Michael Ohajuru as he introduces us to the John Blanke project in the third #AutumnArtLecture John Blanke was the first person of Black African descent in British history for whom we have both a record and an image 📍 Wills Memorial Building ⏰ 6.30-8pm 🔗 bit.ly/3XZSGr7 (free!)

#PoetsOnBluesky #poetrycommunity Reply with 5 poets you know on BlueSky. Keep it going ♥️♥️ @carrieetter.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @samjgrudgings.bsky.social @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @bristolpoetry.bsky.social

The Bristol Poetry Institute, in coordination with the Centre for Black Humanities Bristol, is delighted to announce that the 2024 Annual Reading will be delivered by Sir Ben Okri. 1 November 6PM. Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ben-okri-b...

We have a special event coming up on 🎃 31 October 🎃 w Cuban poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez & translator Katherine Hedeen. All are welcome to join us at 3pm to talk about translation and then for a book launch that evening at East Bristol Books. Info here: poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/10/07/t...

The Bristol Poetry Institute, in coordination with the Centre for Black Humanities Bristol, is delighted to announce that the 2024 Annual Reading will be delivered by Sir Ben Okri. 1 November 6PM. Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ben-okri-b...

A beautiful day for it!

It is 9:08 in Bristol a Thursday three days after the Early May Bank Holiday, yes it is 2024 and we are going to read Lunch Poems in Royal Fort Gardens today at 1

Take a break from revising next week and join the Bristol Poetry Institute to mark the 60th anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems. Thursday 9 May | 1-2 PM | Royal Fort Gardens | All welcome! poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/04/17/l...

Today at 4:30, were teaming up with Bristol’s Brigstow Institute to host a panel discussion on AI and Poetry. Hope to see you there! www.lyrafest.com#e105210

Bristol! Thursday 6PM in the Wills Memorial Building Old Council Chamber I’ll be reading from and talking about Hélio Oiticica’s SECRET POETICS. No need to book just show up!

This Friday 16th Feb, we're looking forward to the Tottering State reading series hosting Spam Zine authors at Bookhaus in Bristol. Hope to see you there! www.bookhausbristol.com/product/tott...

So exhilarating to hear the best poets read their work. Many thanks to Don Paterson and @bristolpoetry.bsky.social

Tonight! Join us for Don Paterson's Annual Reading at 6 and you may also have a chance to pick up one of the fine prints our friends at Bristol Common Press have made.

Tomorrow!! 6PM Priory Rd Lecture Theatre www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

🚨VENUE CHANGE🚨 Due to unexpected building work at Wills Memorial, this event on Wednesday has been moved to the Priory Road Lecture Theatre (same time, details at link below). There are still a few spots if you'd like to book and join us. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Today we were at Bristol Common Press printing up a limited run of Don Paterson’s “Sliding on Loch Ogil” to be available for the Bristol Poetry Institute’s 2023-2024 Annual Reading on 7 February. Book now and maybe grab one of these (while supplies last!!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

Booked :)

The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Annual Reading featuring Don Paterson. 6PM on 7 February in Wills Memorial. Free and open to all. Book here to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Annual Reading featuring Don Paterson. 6PM on 7 February in Wills Memorial. Free and open to all. Book here to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

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Fascinating reading tonight by Ruth Padel of her poems ‘The Many Lives of the Snake Goddess’, courtesy @bristolpoetry.bsky.social. Here’s one I found earlier on Dartmoor. (A snake, not a poem.) Unlike the goddess I didn’t pick it up & wave it in the air. I picked my collie up & sidled past sharpish.