A
event
on Sunday 10th April. The event starts at 19:30.
19:30 - 22:00pm. £5
An audience favourite at Bristol Poetry Festival, and a landmark event in Bristol’s cultural calendar, the Lyra Slam Final is back! Headlined by two world-class poets: 3x World Poetry Slam Champion Buddy Wakefield, and 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize Winner Joelle Taylor.
Watch along at home VIA LIVE STREAM as Bristol’s finest wordsmiths battle it out to be crowned the 2022 Lyra Bristol Slam Winner. Raucous, energetic, passionate and audience-centred, this event always promises to bring poetry to life in an engaging and unexpected way that will make you laugh, smile, or cry, perhaps all at the same time!
The slam finals will be judged by Buddy Wakefield, Joelle Taylor and Lyra's 2022 Festival Poet Edson Burton.