Bristol Stanza Poetry Group
A National Poetry Society Stanza group for Bristol
Friday, 2 December 2022
Stanza Meetings
The Bristol Stanza Group is now meeting twice monthly in a face-to-face workshop setting and twice monthly on Zoom. We welcome new poets on the basis of submission of three recent poems. If you want to know more, please contact martin.rieser@gmail.com
The Bristol Stanza Poetry Group plans to showcase poems
specifically written for a series of mobile phone poetry walks
and for a book, centered on current and prior festival locations.
Our project intends to extend the Lyra Festival’s City of Words
theme in linked poems (like beads on a necklace) which automatically
play to the user on their walk via gps location.
If you would like to write for the project
and to request a poetry guide pack email martin.rieser@gmail.com
Sunday, 20 November 2016
Poetry on the Paragon
with Rachael Boast in Bath
Thursday 24th November
- VenueThe Bookshop, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LS
- Doors open7.45pm
- Start time8pm
Void Studies, Rachel Boast’s extraordinary new poetry collection,
realises a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had
proposed, but never written. Études néantes was to consist of poems
written as musical études; these would not convey any direct message –
but instead summon the abstract spirit of their subject.
This ‘impossible project’ has been completed by Boast in the most astonishing
way. These tone poems are indeed works of pure music – but despite their
esoteric nature are by no means ‘difficult’ in the usual sense: instead
they conjure the recognisable states, emotions, moods, ambiences and
strange atmospheres that lend our lives meaning, and together comprise a
kind of lexicon of feeling. Void Studies is an airy and beautiful book –
one in which Boast has spun a pure music to both ask and answer the most
profound questions poetry can frame.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Festival of the Future City
Festival of the Future City
Poets and writers write about the city
Festival of Ideas commissioned some leading poets and writers to write about the city. In this special session:
Liz Berry, Rachael Boast, Edson Burton, Ciaran Carson, Rana Dasgupta, Melissa Harrison, WN Herbert, Eimear McBride, Helen Mort, Peter Robinson and Lemn Sissay. Lemn Sissay will be reading his poem live from Adis Ababa.
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
£5,000 Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2015
Sponsored by Cegin Productions
judged by jean sprackland & john mcauliffe with both judges reading all poems
prizes: 1st £5,000, 2nd £1,000, 3rd £500
plus 20 prizes of £25 each
plus a spring 2016 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket
plus a prize-winners’ coffee-house poetry reading
with jean sprackland & john mcauliffe
on mon 30th nov 2015
…for all prize-winning poets
plus 20 prizes of £25 each
plus a spring 2016 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket
plus a prize-winners’ coffee-house poetry reading
with jean sprackland & john mcauliffe
on mon 30th nov 2015
…for all prize-winning poets
submissions, via e-mail or post, by mon 19th oct 2015
judges
- John McAuliffe (b. Listowel, Co. Kerry, 1973) has published four books with The Gallery Press: A Better Life (2002), Next Door (2007), Of All Places (PBS Recommendation, 2011) and The Way In (2015). He lives in Manchester where he teaches at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing and writes a monthly poetry column for the Irish Times.
- Jean Sprackland (b. 1962) is author of four collections of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day (Spike, 1997), Hard Water(Cape, 2003), Tilt (Cape, 2007) & Sleeping Keys (Random House, 2013), & Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach(Cape, 2012). Originally from Burton upon Trent, she studied English & Philosophy at the University of Kent & is a Trustee of the Poetry Archive.
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
September Update
- Bristol Poetry Festival See:http://www.poetrycan.co.uk/2-general/1014-bpf15-frontpage.html-Don't miss Les Murray Australian poet Laureate- Tickets are free
- The Emma
Press is looking for poems about space and aliens for an anthology aimed
at children aged 9+. The deadline is 27th September 2015 and full
details can be found here: http://theemmapress.com/about/
submissions/ - Clare Pollard's one-woman poetry show based on her translations of Ovid's Heroines, Exeter Poetry Festival, 10 October;
- What's natural and what's unnatural? A poetry competition to decide, deadline 1 November
- The People's Republic Of Poetry is a 20 date National Poetry Tour offering a night out with a difference and a chance for emerging poets to perform with 'A Firm Of Poets.' Details here.
- Troubadour Poetry Prize, deadline 19 October
- National Poetry Competition, deadline 31 October
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