A event held at L'Étoile Studio on Thursday 18th December. The event starts at 19:30.
(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy)
DAN ELTRINGHAM:
Dan Eltringham is a writer, editor, teacher, translator and bookseller. Dan's latest book of poetry is *My Discovery Of* (Kulvert Press). He is co-owner of EBB with Andres Anwandter and co-editor of Girasol Press with Leire Barrera. With Leire, Dan co-translated the latest Girasol publication, *Inside / Desde la cárcel: Prison Poetry from Argentina, 1975-81*.
JENNY BULL:
Jenny’s work explores being human, a mother, lgbtqia themes, ecology and a lifelong fascination with plants. She works as a gardener and before retraining - studied fashion design at Manchester Met. Jenny helped found more than one ‘co-operative’ and once cycled to India from the UK. Writing, drawing, painting and violin playing have been a nourishing thread all along. Published writing can be found in an anthology exploring maternal lineage and poems in an anthology illustrating pivotal moments of change.
NICK MOORE:
Nick is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and visual artist.
He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets, in various combinations. – most consistently with the In-congruity Project since 1993.
BirdWater, selected poems 1994-2024, was published by Kertecz Press, 2025
In recent years he has become more interested in how writing looks on the page and exploring the sound of words. He has published many books which explore this relationship, in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series as well as EXTEMPoRiSATIoN, a book of visual music/graphic scores. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive.
He has also been known to thread spontaneous music into his readings…
Nick will be reading poems from his new book ‘ tHis is tHere and tHat’.
BILLIE CROUCHER:
Billie George is a new writer who lives and works in Bristol. One of Raise the Bar's 2025 Emerging Poets, her work has been played on BBC radio and is soon to be published in the forthcoming issue of Good Bones, available via East Bristol Books.
BOB WALTON
Bob Walton runs Under the Red Guitar poetry night in El Rincon in Southville, co-runs online Chapter One Creative Writing Group, and is editor of Red Guitar Poetry Press. He’s a member of The Spoke poetry collective. Three times winner of the North American Festival of Wales Poetry Prize, he has a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, where he taught the subject until 2022. His second collection, Sax Burglar Blues, is published by Seren Books and his third is in preparation.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
DAN ELTRINGHAM:
Dan Eltringham is a writer, editor, teacher, translator and bookseller. Dan's latest book of poetry is *My Discovery Of* (Kulvert Press). He is co-owner of EBB with Andres Anwandter and co-editor of Girasol Press with Leire Barrera. With Leire, Dan co-translated the latest Girasol publication, *Inside / Desde la cárcel: Prison Poetry from Argentina, 1975-81*.
JENNY BULL:
Jenny’s work explores being human, a mother, lgbtqia themes, ecology and a lifelong fascination with plants. She works as a gardener and before retraining - studied fashion design at Manchester Met. Jenny helped found more than one ‘co-operative’ and once cycled to India from the UK. Writing, drawing, painting and violin playing have been a nourishing thread all along. Published writing can be found in an anthology exploring maternal lineage and poems in an anthology illustrating pivotal moments of change.
NICK MOORE:
Nick is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and visual artist.
He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets, in various combinations. – most consistently with the In-congruity Project since 1993.
BirdWater, selected poems 1994-2024, was published by Kertecz Press, 2025
In recent years he has become more interested in how writing looks on the page and exploring the sound of words. He has published many books which explore this relationship, in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series as well as EXTEMPoRiSATIoN, a book of visual music/graphic scores. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive.
He has also been known to thread spontaneous music into his readings…
Nick will be reading poems from his new book ‘ tHis is tHere and tHat’.
BILLIE CROUCHER:
Billie George is a new writer who lives and works in Bristol. One of Raise the Bar's 2025 Emerging Poets, her work has been played on BBC radio and is soon to be published in the forthcoming issue of Good Bones, available via East Bristol Books.
BOB WALTON
Bob Walton runs Under the Red Guitar poetry night in El Rincon in Southville, co-runs online Chapter One Creative Writing Group, and is editor of Red Guitar Poetry Press. He’s a member of The Spoke poetry collective. Three times winner of the North American Festival of Wales Poetry Prize, he has a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, where he taught the subject until 2022. His second collection, Sax Burglar Blues, is published by Seren Books and his third is in preparation.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions