Date: Sunday 26th April 2026

Venue: Watershed (W1)

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions, £10 solidarity)

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Wanderer: Writing Movement and Memory - with Romalyn Ante

Writing Workshop

Wanderer: Writing Movement and Memory is a generative poetry workshop exploring how physical and emotional journeys shape the stories we carry. Drawing on poems by Li-Young Lee, Fiona Benson, Ada Limón, and Niall Campbell, we’ll consider how contemporary poets braid memory with landscape, migration with myth, and the body with place. Through close reading and generative prompts, you will explore movement as both subject and method—how a poem travels across time, and how writing can open doors to imaginative terrain not yet discovered. Open to writers at any stage.

Romalyn Ante:

Romalyn Ante FRSL is an award-winning Filipino-born British poet, novelist, and editor. She is based in the Midlands and currently sits on the editorial board for Poetry London.​​ Romalyn was born and raised in Lipa, Philippines, and migrated to the UK in 2005. She writes in English as her second language. In 2012, she began writing poetry after completing her nursing studies and becoming a registered nurse. 

Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. It was Observer’s Poetry Book of the Month, and was named as one of The Poetry School’s Best Poetry Books of 2020. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024), was awarded the Society of Author's Arthur Welton Award, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her debut novel, The Left-Behind Child, will be published by Chatto in August 2026.

Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2026

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