A event held at Watershed on Sunday 26th April. The event starts at 10:30.
Date: Sunday 26th April 2026
Venue: Watershed (W1)
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Tickets: £5
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Words that Walk through Walls: Translating Prison Poetry
Writing Workshop
with Caroline Stockford, Dan Eltringham & Leire Barrera
Presented in partnership with East Bristol Books & Girasol Press
In this interactive writing workshop led by Caroline Stockford, Dan Eltringham & Leire Barrera, learn about prison writing as a genre, translation as activism, and its relationship to state terror, archives, and historical memory. Participants will work with copies of archival documents and literal translations, selecting one to translate themselves (guided by the facilitators).
East Bristol Books:
East Bristol Books is a small independent bookshop on Old Market, the historic eastern gateway to Bristol's city centre. Radical, diverse, independent-minded, and community-orientated, EBB reflects the nature and values of East Bristol.
Girasol Press:
Girasol Press is a small poetry publisher that explores experimental approaches to translation, book-arts and old print technologies, and the recovery of forgotten or marginalised voices and languages. It sits between the world of poetry-pamphlet publishing, which is often fast and ephemeral, and the slow-paced ethos of the artist-book.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2026
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