Applications for our 2025 Writing Retreats close at 20:00 today! Open to poets based in South West England.
Affordable, friendly retreats aimed at emerging+ and mid-career poets, led by Joelle Taylor, Nikita Gill, Anthony Anaxagorou + many more!
www.rtbspokenword.com/courses
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Poetry and Resistance with @rtbspokenword.com
Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan + MORE at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social
www.lyrafest.com#e124699
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Tell Good People Good Things
by Salena Godden
Tell each other you love each other.
Say love. Show your love. Speak it.
Do not wait to talk to a flower in the hope the dead will hear the love you could've said before.
Do not wait to talk to headstones and weep at faded photographs.
You are alive now. So love now.
Tell your good people all the good things.
Tell each other you love each other.
Do not wait to softly weep to flickering candles or cry your love to a flower too late.
Say love. Show your love. Share it.
Images from the show ‘Poetry & Resistance’ poets Salena Godden and Nikita Gill pictured here
My poem “Tell Good People Good Things” is currently on display at the Raise The Bar: Poetry & Resistance Exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol! Here’s some photos from last nights launch with thanks to @rtbspokenword.com & @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social Thank you! 🙌🏾❤️🔥 @canongate.co.uk
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Here’s a little film of Poetry & Resistance exhibition in Arnolfini: see work featured from @lowkey.bsky.social @aanaxagorou.bsky.social @nikitagill.bsky.social and many many more… thank you @dannycarlo.com @rtbspokenword.com 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Courses & Writing Retreats — Raise The Bar
Explore courses and writing retreats from Raise The Bar - the South West's leading live poetry night.
Check out @rtbspokenword.com's Writing Retreats, which offer a chance for poets in South West England to refresh, meet other creatives, create new work, enjoy world-class tutoring and learn key career skills to take their practice to the next level.
www.rtbspokenword.com/courses
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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
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
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.substack.com
Grade II* listed building. Grade 5 music theory.
Independent live music venue in the heart of Bristol.
Music | Festivals | Ideas | Family | Café Bar
Deaf/BSL user, artist & film maker 🌈 working in the umbrella of creative arts.
He/him. Poet. Nonbinary Person. Pagan. Perliginous pandemian pensmith. Good Listeners out with Burning Eye.
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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.
Nice Communist. Often YouTuber. It/Them.
https://linktr.ee/spice8rack
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
Official account of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol. Blog https://poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/. Insta @ thebristolpoetryinstitute. Events on #UoBrisBPILive
Spoken word artist, Green Party member, lover of linguistics and cryptic crosswords, hater of plastic (she/her or they/them)
Poet and project weaver. Director of Hot Poets, Haiflu, Banana Poems, Hip Yak Poetry… runs poetry stage at WOMAD, UN Consultant.
All enquiries: callumwrites@gmail.com
A live literature organisation getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences and finding exciting ways to present writers.
https://linktr.ee/speakingvolumes?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b591d9c3-0f16-46cd-a964-600542abf00d
Cinemas, Pervasive Media Studio, Undershed and all-round Bristol icon.
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. 🏳️🌈
"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/@JosieAlfordPoet
