A event held at Watershed on Sunday 26th April. The event starts at 11:30.
Date: Sunday 26th April 2026
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Tickets: £5 / £3 / FREE
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Street! Readings from Bristol’s Streets
Presented in association with Bristol Libraries
Poetry from the street, on the street!
Come along to hear a selection of Bristol-based poets share their work from Bristol Libraries’ STREET! Project, which geo-locates poems by 29 Bristol poets across 13 Bristol Libraries, responding to local streets. Start your day by wandering around the city through the imaginative power of poetry. Hosted and presented by Ralph Hoyte, featuring live readings from Deborah Harvey, Pete Weinstock, Peter Cowlam, Tim Munson, Agata Palmer, Dominic Fisher and Deasy Bamford. To hear the actual poems layered over the 13 libraries see: ralphhoyte.org
Ralph Hoyte:
Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol poet, writer and located audio designer (geo-located audio triggered by GPS on location). Hoyte is a lyrical poet who specializes in live-art poetry – his poemscripts are written either his voice or for multiple voices and can tend towards the epic in length. Current commissions include ‘The Three Waters’ project with the WWT (The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) at Steart Marshes (with Austrian-Bristolian artist Simone Einfalt), creating audio-visual installations and deep time geo-located walks; and as poet-in-residence for JUSTLANZ: using epic poetry to empower and support the farming communities on the Somerset Levels in their efforts to transform food-farming systems through reconciling net zero and other land-use ambitions.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2026
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