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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival
Registered:24 Feb 2025 13:04
Follow date:14 Apr 2025 14:32
Lyra runs Bristol's Poetry Festival, City Poet, Young City Poet & community collabs. Festival supported by ACE.
Next Festival: 25 Apr - 4 May '25
www.lyrafest.com
Rebecca Kosick
Registered:15 Aug 2023 12:17
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:14
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
Andrew Kelly
Registered:2 Oct 2023 13:36
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:12
Writer, festival director, interviewer. Projects: Future City Film Festival, John Boorman, John Berger, William Gray Walter, revisiting J B Priestley, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel book. Writing/ interviewing/ editing: https://festivalofideas.substa...
St George's Bristol
Registered:21 Jan 2025 11:39
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:05
Grade II* listed building. Grade 5 music theory.
Independent live music venue in the heart of Bristol.
Music | Festivals | Ideas | Family | Café Bar
David Ellington
Registered:22 Dec 2024 19:58
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:05
Deaf/BSL user, artist & film maker 🌈 working in the umbrella of creative arts.
Stephen Lightbown
Registered:26 Jan 2025 22:10
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:04
Adult and children's poet. Picture book writer. Adaptive surfer. Yoga teacher. Northerner. Wheelchair user. Represented by Alice Williams.
Pascal Vine Poet
Registered:22 Oct 2024 13:11
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:04
He/him. Poet. Nonbinary Person. Pagan. Perliginous pandemian pensmith. Good Listeners out with Burning Eye.
📓🗝🌒✨💀🎧
Kat
Registered:8 Feb 2025 07:57
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:04
Writer, performer, creative producer, wkshop facilitator, fungi-friend, hedgewitch, QueerAF 🍄🌈 🍉
https://linktr.ee/katlyons
Former Bristol City Poet, co-host w. Raise the Bar, collection Love Beneath the Nails published by Verve Poetry Press.
Spice8Rack (Marxist)
Registered:25 Jun 2023 23:21
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:04
Nice Communist. Often YouTuber. It/Them.
My links: https://linktr.ee/spice8rack
Fay Roberts
Registered:9 Jul 2023 20:54
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:03
Queer, disabled, Welsh(ish), progressive performance poet/ musician/ project manager/ event host/ musician/ award-winning voice actor. Lover of spreadsheets and creative writing. ze/zir or they/them/their https://linktr.ee/fayroberts
The Bristol Poetry Institute
Registered:7 Nov 2023 11:00
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:02
Official account of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol. Blog https://poetry.blogs.bristol.a... Insta @ thebristolpoetryinstitute. Events on #UoBrisBPILive
Melanie Branton
Registered:15 Nov 2024 21:38
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:01
Spoken word artist, Green Party member, lover of linguistics and cryptic crosswords, hater of plastic (she/her or they/them)
Liv Torc
Registered:15 Aug 2024 02:35
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:00
Poet and project weaver. Director of Hot Poets, Haiflu, Banana Poems, Hip Yak Poetry… runs poetry stage at WOMAD, UN Consultant.
calthepoet.bsky.social
Registered:2 Dec 2024 14:41
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 15:00
All enquiries: callumwrites@gmail.com
Speaking Volumes
Registered:22 Nov 2024 10:34
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:59
A live literature organisation getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences and finding exciting ways to present writers.
https://linktr.ee/speakingvolu...
Watershed
Registered:4 Dec 2023 10:09
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:59
Cinemas, Pervasive Media Studio, Undershed and all-round Bristol icon.
John McCullough
Registered:5 Jan 2025 10:55
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:59
Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Josie Alford
Registered:26 Jan 2025 21:12
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:59
"Gateway drug to poetry" - stranger at a gig
Debut Collection: Faulty Manufacturing - www.josiealford.com
Check out my YouTube channel for all things poetry. https://www.youtube.com/@Josie...
The Poetry Takeaway
Registered:18 Nov 2024 21:14
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:57
One stop poetry shop
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her)
Registered:23 Aug 2023 12:17
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:56
2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️
🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Registered:14 Nov 2024 11:34
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:56
Hard at work
Jeremy Corbyn
Registered:10 May 2023 06:19
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:54
MP for Islington North
Sam J. Grudgings
Registered:17 Oct 2024 08:24
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:53
Host at Large.
Occasional artist. Horror Laureate. Sober AF. Loud Yelling. He/they.
Books with Verve Poetry Press & Broken Sleep
Read my Poems -
https://linktr.ee/samjgrudging...
Arvon
Registered:20 Nov 2024 11:15
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:53
The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Ian Irwin
Registered:23 Jan 2025 15:05
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:53
Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
Rob Auton
Registered:14 Nov 2024 09:19
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:52
Nothing ripens a banana quicker than a rucksack
Caleb Parkin
Registered:11 Nov 2024 09:23
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:52
Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼
https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
Luke Kennard
Registered:13 Nov 2024 17:59
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:52
Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Brian Bilston
Registered:14 Oct 2023 16:25
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:52
I write poems.
Dr Carrie Etter
Registered:25 Aug 2023 17:23
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:52
Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carr...
Rebecca Swift Foundation
Registered:26 Apr 2024 12:03
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:51
Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
Laurie Ogden
Registered:17 Aug 2024 16:24
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:51
Poet, Playwright, Actor, Access Support Worker. Represented by The Artist Partnership. Published by flipped eye. Co-editor of And Other Poems. www.laurieogden.co.uk
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Registered:30 Jun 2023 11:44
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:51
Writer, reader, editor, facilitator, programme leader, artistic director. Geeks for mobile computing, creative coding, generative tech, ergomech keyboards, sci-fi & spec fic...
Kim Moore
Registered:16 Nov 2024 12:43
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:51
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Caroline Bird
Registered:15 Nov 2024 14:58
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
www.carolinebird.co.uk
Literature Works
Registered:19 Nov 2024 10:52
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
We are a charity in South West England using words and stories to support creativity and wellbeing. We connect people and communities, nurture talent, and champion the power of storytelling, writing and reading. 📖
literatureworks.org.uk
VERVE Poetry Press
Registered:21 Nov 2024 11:52
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to
@Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍
https://vervepoetrybookshop.co...
Hollie McNish
Registered:18 Nov 2024 17:00
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates
Suzannah Evans
Registered:26 Nov 2023 15:37
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
space baby
Clare Pollard
Registered:20 Nov 2024 18:53
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:50
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Alycia Pirmohamed
Registered:24 Jul 2023 21:47
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:49
poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
Out-Spoken Press
Registered:2 Oct 2023 15:28
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:48
Independent poetry publisher 📧press@outspokenldn.com
https://linktr.ee/outspokenpre...
Courtney Conrad
Registered:15 Nov 2024 15:37
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:48
🇯🇲🇬🇧 Poet| Cave Canem Fellow| Book'I Am Evidence' @BloodaxeBooks|2022 Eric Gregory Award @Soc_of_Authors |2023 Michael Marks Award| Instagram - @courtneyconradpoetry
Website: http://www.courtneyconradpoet....
Jo Bell
Registered:18 Nov 2024 16:55
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:47
Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Tom Sastry
Registered:20 Nov 2024 19:47
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:47
Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜
Registered:10 Sep 2023 04:33
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:46
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Poetry Translation Centre
Registered:10 Feb 2025 13:39
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:46
Giving the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language.
Books | Events | Workshops | Podcasts
https://www.poetrytranslation....
Nikesh Shukla
Registered:28 Jun 2023 17:20
Follow date:11 Feb 2025 14:46
Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.