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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 29/06/2026

Join Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor for a St Pauls Carnival themed poetry workshop to kick off Carnival Day! www.lyrafest.com#e157552 Presented by Lyra Festival and St Pauls Carnival and supported by Renaissance One and Melanie Abrahams.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 06/05/2026

💚TOMORROW NIGHT💚 Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival 2026 Slam Champion Chloe Tenesha is back performing at Arnolfini with Raise the Bar for the Poems of Diaspora event! See you there hdfst.uk/e150993

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 04/05/2026

💚Still to Come!💚 Wonderer: Sparking New Poems An online webinar workshop led by @nikitagill.bsky.social hdfst.uk/e150144

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 02/05/2026

💚Enzie is winner of the inaugural Glenn Carmichael Award💚 Glenn Carmichael brought poetry slam to Bristol in the mid 90's and laid the foundation for what the spoken word scene in Bristol is today. The Glenn Carmichael award goes to the highest audience scored poet. #poetryslam

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 01/05/2026

Join Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor during the season of Eid for a poetry workshop exploring voices from across the Muslim world. Date: Sat 30th May 2026 Time: 15:30 - 17:30 Venue: Arnolfini Price: FREE Book now: hdfst.uk/e151310 #eid #eidmubarak #poetry #bristol

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 30/04/2026

💚🙏Thank you to our volunteers!🙏💚 Our turquoise-clad volunteers are the ones who keep the show on the road. Thank you for answering questions, scanning tickets, and being a friendly face! P.S. You can make our volunteers happy by filling out an evaluation form: forms.gle/AGVddj6KWncH...

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 29/04/2026

If you liked Lyra Festival, you'll love Diaspora! www.diverseartistsnetwork.com/2026-festival/ From 1–10 May, Bristol and the South West will come alive with a ten-day celebration of global culture. With around 100 events spanning workshops, exhibitions, and world-class performances.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 28/04/2026

💚THANK YOU!💚 Lyra wouldn't happen without our audience - it's been lovely to see and share poetry with you. If you haven't already, please fill out an evaluation form forms.gle/C4PuczU7ZMNu...

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 27/04/2026

Poetry Film Club is back!. Tuesday 28th April featuring poetry films made by the Bristol Refugee Artists Collective created in LYRA - Bristol Poetry Festival workshops. Come and see the first screening of these films Tickets on the door or from Headfirst: hdfst.uk/e151744

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 26/04/2026

💚IT'S THE LAST DAY OF LYRA💚 and we're at @w_shed for the day. Tickets available at lyrafest.com or on the door from one of our lovely volunteers. #poetry #bristoluk #lyrafest

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 25/04/2026

TOMORROW 💚 Responding to the Lyra Fest theme Wonder and Wanderers, join five incredible poets with @betarish.bsky.social @romalynante3.bsky.social, @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social, @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Tickets: www.lyrafest.com#e150183 #poetry #bristoluk #bristol #spokenword

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 25/04/2026

💚Our closing event is Roots, Resonance and African Heritage💚 The event with Ujima Radio 98fm will feature performances from Bristol-based poets and artists, including Muneera Pilgrim, Blackout ja and Ripton Lindsay. www.lyrafest.com#e150184

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Roots, Resonance and African Heritage Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Tickets: FREE/Pay-What-You-Can Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150184

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Wonder and Wanderers: A Poetic Journey with @betarish.bsky.social, @romalynante3.bsky.social, @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social, @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Tickets: FREE/Pay-What-You-Can Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150183

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Wanderer: Writing Movement and Memory - with @romalynante3.bsky.social Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W1) Time: 13:00 - 15:00 Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions, £10 solidarity) Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150182

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Street! Readings from Bristol’s Streets Presented in association with @bristollibraries.bsky.social Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 11:30 - 12:30 Tickets: FREE / Pay-What-You-Can Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150179

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Words that Walk through Walls: Translating Prison Poetry Writing Workshop Date: Sunday 26th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W1) Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm Tickets: £5 Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150178

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Nikita Gill: Hekate & Poems of Mythology with @nikitagill.bsky.social, @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social and Emilie Jelinek Date: Saturday 25th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 18:00 - 19:15 Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions) Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150175

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Endless Invention: Ecopoetry & Technology Writing Workshop with @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social Date: Saturday 25th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W1) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Tickets: £8 - only a handful left! hdfst.uk/e150171

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Domestic Shadows: New Poems of Resilience Date: Saturday 25th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Tickets: FREE / Pay-What-You-Can Wth Wayne Holloway-Smith, @hannahsilva.bsky.social, Simon Maddrell, @degna.bsky.social

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Poetry, AI, Ethics and Inclusion Date: Saturday 25th April 2026 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Tickets: £5 / £3 / FREE Booking Link: hdfst.uk/e150159

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

We're heading into our closing weekend! Thank you for joining us so far. Here's what we've got to look forward to this weekend: 🧵

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 24/04/2026

Enchanting words, harp music and song on themes of life on the road, including the Old Traveller Ways, domesticity, belonging and identity in Romany culture, join us for performances from Vanessa Wood-Davies, Raine Geoghegan, and Karen Downs-Barton www.lyrafest.com#e150180 #poetry #bristoluk

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 22/04/2026

💚Hekate & Poems of Mythology💚 With readings from @nikitagill.bsky.social, @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social and @emilie_jelinek Saturday 25th, 18:00 at Watershed www.lyrafest.com#e15017

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 17/04/2026

💚Lyra Fest Starts Today!💚 Here are all our BSL interpreted events www.lyrafest.com#hf_tag=bsl%2...

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 16/04/2026

💚 Working Class Poetics 💚 Date: Saturday 18th April 2026 Venue: St George's Bristol Time: 14:30 Join Karen McCarthy Woolf, Matthew Rice, and John McCullough for an afternoon of poetry exploring class, labour and the forces that shape working lives. www.lyrafest.com#e150115

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 14/04/2026

A celebration of the new ground-breaking @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social anthology, Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Join our special guests as they share their work and discuss this timely anthology with editor Rachael Boast. www.lyrafest.com#e150121

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 13/04/2026

Joelle Taylor: Maryville Date: Sunday 19th April 2026 Venue: Arnolfini Time: 16:00 - 17:00 A searing, poetic excavation of 50 years of lesbian counterculture. www.lyrafest.com#e150134

Joelle Taylor: Maryville

Joelle is wearing a grey three-piece suit with a white shirt and red tie. She is sat in a red booth and drinking a pint of beer.

Joelle Taylor brings a staged reading of her new poetry collection to Lyra Festival; a searing, poetic excavation of 50 years of lesbian counterculture.

Following-on from her TS Eliot Prize-winning poetry collection C+nto & Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor’s Maryville charts the lives of four butch lesbians through five decades of underground queer history; tracing the culture, clubs and resistance that shaped their world.

With a vividly sketched cast of characters, the Maryville butch bar becomes a lens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The violence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are rendered in awe-inspiring high definition.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 11/04/2026

📣Due to a change in line up, we have some announcements 📣 Joelle Taylor will now be on the Power of Poetry Panel discussion: www.lyrafest.com#e150110 and Saili Katebe will be running the Inspiring Poetry workshop! 🎉

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 10/04/2026

Shane Koyczan says: "I am heartbroken to announce that due to unexpected visa issues, I am not able to enter the country for my upcoming tour. We are exploring new dates and hope to have more information, soon.”

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 10/04/2026

We regret to announce that, due to visa issues, Shane Koyczan will no longer be travelling to the UK for his tour this month. The event at St George's Bristol has been cancelled, and all tickets are being refunded.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 08/04/2026

Join Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney in a generative writing workshop based in simile and sound. www.lyrafest.com#e150148 Participants will read poems by Hera Lindsay Bird, sam sax, and Maggie Millner, and begin to write their own poems about people and relationships.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 08/04/2026

Presented by Lyra Festival, Renaissance One and Bristol Old Vic, in association with St Pauls Carnival and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/car...

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 07/04/2026

Inua Ellams brings his chaotic, audience-led poetry event to Lyra Festival. Pick a word, any word. Prompted by audience suggestions, Inua Ellams will search through his extensive archive of work and perform a reactive and spontaneous selection. www.lyrafest.com#e150125

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 04/04/2026

Easter Bank Holiday Flash Sale! 💚 To celebrate, we're offering 30% of the following events: Queer Poetry Cabaret Family Poems with Michael Rosen Shane Koyczan Inua Ellams: Search Party Joelle Taylor: Maryville Nikita Gill: Hekate & Poems of Mythology linktr.ee/lyrafest

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 03/04/2026

💚💪The Power of Poetry💪💚 A captivating panel discussion which considers the enduring power of poetry in contemporary life featuring Georgie Jones, @shanekoyczan.bsky.social, Vanessa Kisuule, and Bertel Martin, chaired by Professor Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social www.lyrafest.com#e150110

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 02/04/2026

Come along to see 10 of Bristol's finest wordsmiths battle it out, as well as feature performances from acclaimed headline poets Musa @okwonga.bsky.social, Caitlin O'Ryan and last years winner Ben Vince! www.lyrafest.com#e146139

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 01/04/2026

Domestic Shadows: Wayne Holloway-Smith, Hannah Silva, @simonmaddrell.bsky.social, @degna.bsky.social Date: Saturday 25th April 2026 Venue: @wshed.bsky.social (W3) Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Tickets: £5 / £3 / FREE ✅ Live Streamed (book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout) www.lyrafest.com#e150169

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 28/03/2026

A powerful, moving and urgent hour of poetry from young Palestinian voices, whose poems centre hopes, dreams and unspeakable struggles and losses. The event will be headlined by two gifted young poets from Gaza, Haia Mohammed and Batool Abu Akleen www.lyrafest.com#e150117

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 27/03/2026

Can't make it in person? No Problem! 16 of our events are live streamed and online, so you can enjoy lyra from anywhere! www.lyrafest.com#hf_tag=onlin... Can't choose? Get the Digital Pass and come to them all* hdfst.uk/e150106 *the 2 online workshops aren't included in the digital pass

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 26/03/2026

Join international, national and local poets for a captivating panel discussion which considers the enduring power of poetry in contemporary life. Join the discussion: www.lyrafest.com#e150110

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 23/03/2026

Come along to this inspiring and creative workshop acilitated by Samatar Elmi and Asmaa Jama. Ticket Price: Free (Book Here: hdfst.uk/e150980)

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 20/03/2026

Internationally recognized author and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan has emerged as a creator of poetry that dares to belong to the people and speak directly to them in their own voice. www.lyrafest.com#e145979

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 19/03/2026

For Lyra Festival’s closing event, join Ujima Radio 98fm for a dynamic evening showcase of established, emerging, national and local poets and spoken word artists of African Heritage. With headline performances from @Theresa_Lola and Jolade Olusanya Tickets: www.lyrafest.com#e150184

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 16/03/2026

👩‍🎤Your Chance to Perform at Lyra👨‍🎤 We have 3 Open Mics for your chance to be on the line up for Lyra Festival 2026! 1. Raise the Bar: www.lyrafest.com#e150143 2. Satellite of Love Poetry & Spoken Word X Chimes: www.lyrafest.com#e150146 3. Women Poets Network: www.lyrafest.com#e150172

Bradley Taylor is a white man with long, curly, light brown hair and a moustache. He is wearing a low buttoned white shirt and black jacket with a necklace. He is sat against a brick wall with colourful art on it.
Text Reads: "Raise the Bar: Open Mic
Tuesday 21st April, 19:30
The Orchard Coffee & Co"

Elena Chamberlain is a white woman with wavy, ginger, bob length hair. She is stood at a microphone on stage against a moodily lit stone wall. She is wearing a baggy white shirt and black waistcoat.
Text Reads: "Satellite of Love & Chimes: Open Mic
Wednesday 22 April, 19:30
Loco Klub"

Clare Pollard is a white woman with shoulder length, light brown, wavy hair and short bangs. She has blue eyes and a blue jacket.
Text reads: Women Poets' Network: Open Mic
Saturday 25th April, 14:30
Watershed

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 14/03/2026

Over 60% sold already! 💚 This popular event with Michael Rosen at St George's Bristol is sure to sell out - avoid disappointment and book your tickets now: www.lyrafest.com#e145977

Michael Rosen is a white man in his 70s with short grey hair and a beard and blue eyes. He is stood in front of a grey brick wall and earing a grey wool coat and a blue scarf.
Text reads:
Family Poems with Michael Rosen
Saturday 18th April, 13:00
St George's Bristol
Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 13/03/2026

Congratulations to Haia Mohammed on the shortlisting of The Age of Olive Trees for the British Book Awards 2026 Book of the Year - Discover Award Haia will be headlining our event From Dust We Rise: Young Voices of Gaza. Get your tickets here: www.lyrafest.com#e150117

In the centre of a dark grey graphic, a book called The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed, published by Out Spoken Press. The cover is a cream background with black and green squares with the outline of olive leaves on them.

In the corners, logos read The British Book Awards
Shortlisted
Book of the Year
Discover
Sponsored by Audible

Haia Mohammed is a young palestinian woman, she is stood on stage holding a microphone in one hand and a book in the other. She is waring a black headscarf and long, intricately patterned robes in black, white and green.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 12/03/2026

Slam Applications Close Tonight!🕛 You have until midnight to fill out the application form for your chance to be Lyra Bristol Slam Champion 2026! Apply here: forms.gle/cPVzuRuGXJgX...

Slam host Saili Katebe is a black man with short close cropped hair and stubble on his face. He is wearing a black tshirt and a watch. He is stood at a microphone looking out at the audience which are out of frame. He is carrying a clipboard under one arm while he claps a previous performer. In front of him, text reads: Slam Applications Closing tonight
You have until 23:59
Lyra Bristol poetry festival

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 11/03/2026

WE WON! 🎉🥳 Lyra Fest has been awarded the Bristol Legends award for 'Best Event / Show' in the Performing Arts Category. We'd like the thank the entire Lyra team who work incredibly hard to bring Lyra Festival to life. #Bristol247 #BristolLegends #AntiBanquet

Lyra Cofounders Lucy English & Danny Pandolfi stand in front of a whole bunch of logos of Bristol based businesses. On the left, Lucy is a white woman with shoulder length blonde hair, she is grinning at the camera. She is wearing a long sleeved maxi dress in a striped patten in the lyra branded colours of black, gold and various shades of green. On the right, Danny is a white man with curly ginger hair and goatee he is smiling at the camera with his thumb up. He is wearing a white shirt with a cream suit and a gold chain around his neck.

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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com · 10/03/2026

You can book a Festival Pass to access the entire Lyra 2026 programme at a hugely discounted price. From April 17th - 26th. Digital passes are also available to watch all live streamed events, plus on-demand access until May 31st 2026 Find out More: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/all...

In the dark Arnolfini theatre, a crowd of people wait for the poetry to begin. Over the top of the image text reads "Lyra Festival Passes" with the Lyra Fest, Lottery and Arts Council England Logos

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