A event on Sunday 14th April. The event starts at 15:30.
Date: Sunday 14th April
Venue: St. George’s Bristol (Glass Studio)
Time: 15:30 - 16:30
Price: £5
BSL Interpreted ✔
Live Streamed ✔
Beyond Poetry: with Vanessa Kisuule, Travis Alabanza & Cecilia Knapp. A panel discussion with three leading UK poets who have written across literary forms.
Lyra’s 2024 theme is Poetic Futures. In this panel, we ask the question how poetry is moving into the future and how these poets are transforming their poetic practice. Travis Alabanza recently released their debut memoir ‘None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary’ (2022), Cecilia Knapp released her debut novel ‘Little Boxes’ in 2023, and Vanessa Kisuule is releasing her debut collection of essays ‘Neverland’ with Canongate in 2024. All three poets have also used their poetry in solo theatre shows. Join them for fascinating insights about how their crafts are developing beyond (but still within) poetry, and how poetry itself is developing and moving into new places.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
The event is also available to watch via live stream. Please book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout.
Vanessa Kisuule:
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer and facilitator based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and performed nationally and internationally. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Blue Peter and TEDx in Vienna. She was the Bristol City Poet for 2018 - 2020 and her poem on the toppling of Edward Colston's statue ‘Hollow' went viral on Twitter. She wrote and presented ‘The Poetry Detective’ for Radio 4 in 2021 which has been commissioned for a second series. She has two poetry collections with Burning Eye Books and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. Her work is published in poetry anthologies Everything is Going To Be Alright (Trapeze Books), More Fiya (Canongate) and the essay collection Black Joy (Penguin). She is the co-tutor for the Southbank New Poets Collective alongside Will Harris. Her debut essay collection Neverland is forthcoming from Canongate in 2024.
Cecilia Knapp:
Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women’s prize and the Outspoken poetry prize. Her debut poetry collection 'Peach Pig' was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October. Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta, The White Review, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg and anthologised. She curated the anthology 'Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them', published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel 'Little Boxes' is published by The Borough Press (Harper Collins.) Purchase here. In 2023, Little Boxes was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Commissions include Vogue, The Tate, The BBC. She teaches creative writing in a number of settings.
Travis Alabanza:
Travis Alabanza is an award winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their writing has appeared in the BBC, Guardian, Vice, Gal-Dem and previously had a fortnightly column in the metro. After being the youngest recipient of the artist in residency program at Tate Galleries, Alabanza debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold out shows in Southbank Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil, HAU Berlin & won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre award in 2019. Their writing has appeared in numerous anthologies including Black and Gay In the UK. In 2020 their recent theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim and later streamed online in over 22 countries. Other works for theatre and live performance include Royal Court Living Newspaper, Paines Plough, Free Word Centre, Glasgow Transmission Gallery and more. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity and race has been noted internationally, giving talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol and more.
Filters:
Live Event
Online/Streamed
BSL Interpreted
Part of #LyraFest
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Venue: St. George’s Bristol (Glass Studio)
Time: 15:30 - 16:30
Price: £5
BSL Interpreted ✔
Live Streamed ✔
Beyond Poetry: with Vanessa Kisuule, Travis Alabanza & Cecilia Knapp. A panel discussion with three leading UK poets who have written across literary forms.
Lyra’s 2024 theme is Poetic Futures. In this panel, we ask the question how poetry is moving into the future and how these poets are transforming their poetic practice. Travis Alabanza recently released their debut memoir ‘None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary’ (2022), Cecilia Knapp released her debut novel ‘Little Boxes’ in 2023, and Vanessa Kisuule is releasing her debut collection of essays ‘Neverland’ with Canongate in 2024. All three poets have also used their poetry in solo theatre shows. Join them for fascinating insights about how their crafts are developing beyond (but still within) poetry, and how poetry itself is developing and moving into new places.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
The event is also available to watch via live stream. Please book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout.
Vanessa Kisuule:
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer and facilitator based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and performed nationally and internationally. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Blue Peter and TEDx in Vienna. She was the Bristol City Poet for 2018 - 2020 and her poem on the toppling of Edward Colston's statue ‘Hollow' went viral on Twitter. She wrote and presented ‘The Poetry Detective’ for Radio 4 in 2021 which has been commissioned for a second series. She has two poetry collections with Burning Eye Books and was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. Her work is published in poetry anthologies Everything is Going To Be Alright (Trapeze Books), More Fiya (Canongate) and the essay collection Black Joy (Penguin). She is the co-tutor for the Southbank New Poets Collective alongside Will Harris. Her debut essay collection Neverland is forthcoming from Canongate in 2024.
Cecilia Knapp:
Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women’s prize and the Outspoken poetry prize. Her debut poetry collection 'Peach Pig' was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October. Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta, The White Review, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg and anthologised. She curated the anthology 'Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them', published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel 'Little Boxes' is published by The Borough Press (Harper Collins.) Purchase here. In 2023, Little Boxes was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Commissions include Vogue, The Tate, The BBC. She teaches creative writing in a number of settings.
Travis Alabanza:
Travis Alabanza is an award winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their writing has appeared in the BBC, Guardian, Vice, Gal-Dem and previously had a fortnightly column in the metro. After being the youngest recipient of the artist in residency program at Tate Galleries, Alabanza debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold out shows in Southbank Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil, HAU Berlin & won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre award in 2019. Their writing has appeared in numerous anthologies including Black and Gay In the UK. In 2020 their recent theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim and later streamed online in over 22 countries. Other works for theatre and live performance include Royal Court Living Newspaper, Paines Plough, Free Word Centre, Glasgow Transmission Gallery and more. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity and race has been noted internationally, giving talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol and more.
Filters:
Live Event
Online/Streamed
BSL Interpreted
Part of #LyraFest
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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