Event Cancelled: BPI Annual Reading: Denise Riley
Denise Riley; free entry (booking required)
Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
We are sorry to announce that this year’s Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading has been cancelled due to illness. We hope to reschedule in the Spring.
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Over the last five decades, Denise Riley has steadily acquired the reputation of being, in the words of Simon Armitage, ‘one of the best poets around’. Sarah Perry, writer of The Essex Serpent, and Max Porter, writer of Grief is a Thing With Feathers, each called her 2016 volume, Say Something Back ‘the best thing I’ve read in ages’, while Robert Macfarlane declared the book’s ‘heart-piercing elegy to her son Jacob, “A Part Song”: the most powerful contemporary poem I’ve read in years’. 2022 sees the much anticipated publication of its successor, Lurex. The evening promises to be enjoyable, thought provoking and moving.
Contact information
For any queries please contact: poetry-institute@bristol.ac.uk.