Wonder and Wanderers: A Poetic Journey at Watershed Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Tickets: £5 / £3 / FREE Booking Link: TBA ✅ Live Streamed (book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout) ✅ All Lyra Fest venues ...

🌿 Salt's Chris Emery joins Rishi Dastidar, Romalyn Ante, Katrina Naomi & Natalie Linh Bolderston at Lyra Bristol for Wonder and Wanderers: A Poetic Journey.

📅 Sun 26 April, 15:30–17:00 | Watershed, Bristol
🎟️ £5 / £3 / FREE | Live stream available

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'Page Against the Machine' - Lyra's AI & Poetry Symposium The deadline for Lightning Talk proposals is midnight on Sunday 25th May 2025. Symposium Details: Date: Friday June 27th 2025 Venue: Watershed, Bristol (Room W3) - but pre-recorded video Lightning Talks of 3-5 minutes are very welcome Time: 10:00 - 14:00 Price: FREE (advance booking essential) Join Lyra Bristol Poetry for the UK’s first ever AI and Poetry Symposium. Lyra’s project ‘Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry’, funded by Brigstow Institute, has been pairing public poets and technologists together to create new work responding to the research question: ‘How can poetic writing produced by, or with, AI accurately model human voice, narrative and place-based experience?’, exploring the ethical and creative dilemmas of our time. This event will include presentations of research and poems from four technologist pairs: Shakara and Vince Baidoo, Deanna Rodger and Michael Marcinkowski, Raina Greifer and Francesco Bentivegna, Ralph Hoyte and Matthew Olden, as well as the project’s lead researcher Caleb Parkin. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event (advance booking essential) and to join the conversation around AI, poetry and creativity in a relaxed, fun and friendly environment. There are five slots available for short lightning talks from poets who have undertaken projects or research with AI - apply below. The deadline for Lightning Talk proposals is midnight on Sunday 25th May 2025. We will consider 1-2 pre-recorded talks from speakers who cannot make it in-person. Please specify in your proposal if you'd like to deliver a pre-recorded talk.

Call for Lightning Talks: AI & Poetry Symposium
Poets working with AI—submit a 5-min talk (live or recorded) for Lyra’s Page Against the Machine event on 27 June @ Watershed, Bristol.
🗓️ Deadline: 27 May 2025
🎤 Apply: docs.google.com/form...
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On the right is BSL interpreter and the mc for the night. Behind them is the banner Raise The Bar Poetry and Resistance with the faces from the line up this evening

Fantastic night of spoken word, song and poetry @ Lyra Bristol poetry Festival. Powerful words on rhyme and resistance giving me strength and encouragement ....and some hope. Love that healing is happening at Bristol Arnolfini too 🙏🏾❤️‍🔥 #lyrafest

Just feeling dreamy and inspired by the womens poetry network open mic. Fantastic poetry and spoken word #lyrafest