A
event
held at Arnolfini
on Sunday 30th April. The event starts at 16:00.
Price: Free
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Nature isn’t separate from city, but everywhere around us. Come join four area poets, Carrie Etter, Pey Oh, Caleb Parkin, and Samantha Walton, as they read poems that explore nature in/of/and the city.
There will also be an open mic for poems on the same theme. For a possible place at the event, please email your poem to [email protected].
(Caleb Parkin Photo credit: Sam Cavender)
(Carrie Etter Photo credit: Joanna Nadin)
CARRIE ETTER:
Carrie Etter is an American expatriate who has lived in England since 2001 and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol. She has published four collections, most recently The Weather in Normal (UK: Seren; US: Station Hill, 2018), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; individual poems have appeared in The New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Poetry Review, The TLS, and many other periodicals and anthologies internationally. She also writes short fiction, essays, and reviews.
PEY OH:
Pey Oh (she/her) is a Bath-based poet from Malaysia. Her debut pamphlet, Pictograph, was published by Flarestack Poetry in 2018. Her recent work can be found in harana poetry, Butcher’s Dog, Long Poem Magazine, Abridged, Iamb and Propel Magazine. A Legitimate Snack, Bagua, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021. She is a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Poetry winner 2021.
CALEB PARKIN:
Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, has poems in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Magma and The Rialto. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and tutors for Poetry Society, Poetry School and Arvon. Publications: Wasted Rainbow (tall-lighthouse); This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches Press, longlisted Laurel Prize), All the Cancelled Parties (Bristol Ideas), The Coin (Broken Sleep). He is currently a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Exeter.
SAMANTHA WALTON:
Samantha Walton is a writer, researcher and editor, based in Bristol. Her most recent book, Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury) is a work of nature writing and cultural history which explores the nature-wellbeing connection in the context of ecological crisis and late capitalism. Her poetry includes Self Heal (Boiler House Press), a collection of ecological lyrics, and Bad Moon (Spam Press), an ecogothic feminist horror story about the end of the world. She is Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University and Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities.