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🧵The 2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize is now open for deaf and disabled UK poets! 🏆Best Single Poem 🏆Best Unpublished Pamphlet This year's judges are Jamie Hale, Polly Atkin & Khairani Barokka! Subs close: 1pm on 4 Nov, Free entry/£7 donation. Learn more: disabledpoetsprize.org.uk

Our fifth Festival Poet was Malaika Kegode in 2023. Since Lyra took over the Bristol City Poet scheme in 2024, the City Poet now also acts as a resident poet at Lyra Festival. Find out more and apply for the role of Bristol City Poet: lyrafest.com/festival-poets…

Our sixth and final festival poet this year was shakara. Since Lyra took over the Bristol City Poet scheme in 2024, the City Poet now also acts as a resident poet at Lyra Festival. Learn more and apply for the Bristol City Poet Role: lyrafest.com/about/bristol-…

Get ready for our biggest night of the year 🎉 Next month, Out-Spoken moves to the Queen Elizabeth Hall for #LondonLiteratureFestival. 🎟️ Tickets buff.ly/3Tujrm9 📅 24 October 🕝 7.45pm 📍Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 🧏 BSL interpreted

📣APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW!📣 The application form closes at 20:00 tomorrow. We can't wait to read your applications lyrafest.com/about/bristol-… 📸 Boys in Bristol Photography

Raise the Bar returns this Autumn with a dynamic, life-affirming programme of live poetry. "From top to bottom, one of my all time favourite shows" - Shane Koyczan linktr.ee/rtbspokenword

You have 8 hours to get your Bristol City Poet applications in! We can't wait to see how this turns out 👀 lyrafest.com/about/bristol-… Photo by Ben Prater

Just a few hours until the deadline now! Last chance to apply to become Bristol City Poet 2024-26.

A job opportunity for someone in Bristol to work with Poetry By Heart 👇 poetrybyheart.org.uk/about/work-wit…

Read about our new City Poet Sukina Noor ❤️‍🔥 سكينة نور 🇵🇸 in local media 👇 Bristol 24/7: bristol247.com/culture/poetry… Bristol Post: bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

WE DID IT! 🥳 1000+ people came to see the South West's biggest EVER poetry event, as we celebrated Raise the Bar's 10th birthday with UK Poetry All-Stars!⭐ Huge thanks to all these amazing artists and Bristol Beacon! Big love from the RTB team 💙 see you soon

Happy National Poetry Day from everyone at Lyra. Celebrate with us on Oct 8th at the Bristol City Poet handover event. Limited tix remaining: hdfst.uk/e114211

COVER REVEAL 🌿 Kat Lyons' 2022-2024 City Poet anthology, 'Everything comes from somewhere.' To get a FREE copy, come along to the launch / City Poet handover event this Tuesday 8th Oct at Waterstones Bristol. Limited tickets remaining: hdfst.uk/e114211

Fine evening celebrating the work of our City Poets now in the good hands of Lyra Bristol Poetry. Thank you Marvin Rees for setting this project up. It’s been a joy to work with our poets and the city on this.

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Bristol City Poet handover featuring powerful, moving poetry readings by outgoing poet Kat Lyons & incoming poet Sukina Noor. Cheers to Lyra Bristol Poetry for organising. Huge congratulations Sukina Noor ❤️‍🔥 سكينة نور 🇵🇸 on this well deserved role 💗🎉

Check out these upcoming activities at MORE THAN WORDS - Clevedon LitFest - Collage Poetry Workshop run by Chloe Vlahos - Poetry x Art Workshop run by Susannah Evans - Walking Words Writing Workshop run by Ruth Hill clevedonlitfest.org.uk/celebration-of…

Tonight at the recently opened East Bristol Books 👇 A triple bill of multilingual and translated poetry, headlined by internationally acclaimed Cuban poet Victor Rodríguez Nuñez: hdfst.uk/e115475

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