A event held at L'Étoile Studio on Thursday 30th January. The event starts at 19:30.
(IMAGE CREDIT: SETH GUY)
ANDRES ANWANDTER:
Andres is a Chilean poet, known for his sound poetry. He was an instructor at the Spanish-American poetry workshop led by Jorge Gissi and edited the magazine Humo ("Smoke"), along with Alejandro Zambra. In 1993 he received a scholarship from the Neruda Foundation and in 1995 won first prize in the Feuc Poetry Contest. In 2002 he was awarded the Municipal Prize for Poetry for Especies Intencionales, his second book.
LAURA BRISCOE:
Laura was born in the deepest depths of rural Oxfordshire in 1977, from a very early age she distinguished herself as a profoundly uninteresting and talentless child. That all changed on an auspicious occasion at the tender age of four when she fell from her bedroom window onto a parsley patch. Emerging from the fragrant herb bed she rose triumphant and proclaimed loudly 'I AM A POET!’ Her ever-fretful mother, first on the scene, respectfully disagreed, and applying a cold compress thoughtfully reminded her daughter of the need for vigilance at all times, and the dangers of Botulism.
Her father, marginally more supportive of her newfound literary bent, encouraged her in her whimsical fantasies and eventually emerged the poet who today we love.
Laura writes uplifting, life affirming, insightful poetry in which she mythologises the mundane. Her poems full of humanity and are often tinged with nostalgia. She conjures scenes from country and city life, and themes of love and grief are often woven into her work. Her writing creates evocative landscapes for the heart and the imagination and with food as a frequent theme: sometimes even the stomach. On Instagram she shares her work under the pseudonym Elsierhymes and she regularly performs at open mic events around Bristol and has had her poems featured on BBC radio.
BEN DALI:
Ben Dali is the UK's only mentalist-hypnotist-cum-comedian-poet. After years of working as a cruise ship gameshow host, he turned to the psychological arts, mesmerising audiences across the country and Edinburgh Fringe, before moving to Bristol and entrancing his audiences with humour and wordplay rather than trances. Come get entranced (humourously and wordplayously).
JODI MUSTARD:
Jodi Mustard started writing and performing poetry In the wake of a tricky break up in 2024, but has written and performed music for many years in different bands ranging from surf punk to doom metal. In her most recent band she played bass guitar and toured in the US for a month before leaving the band to "pursue other projects".
Jodi writes about difficult emotional experiences, dark thoughts and murders she says she definitely didn't commit. She writes revealing and honest poems, in desperate pursuit of a sense of acknowledgement and resolve, and hopes that others can feel seen too.
Her love for poetry came from her grandad (Ron Tiner), a comic book illustrator and author known for his work in the sci-fi and fantasy realms.
In her spare time she likes to play 5-aside football, ride her Harley-Davidson chopper and drag her nails down chalkboards.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
ANDRES ANWANDTER:
Andres is a Chilean poet, known for his sound poetry. He was an instructor at the Spanish-American poetry workshop led by Jorge Gissi and edited the magazine Humo ("Smoke"), along with Alejandro Zambra. In 1993 he received a scholarship from the Neruda Foundation and in 1995 won first prize in the Feuc Poetry Contest. In 2002 he was awarded the Municipal Prize for Poetry for Especies Intencionales, his second book.
LAURA BRISCOE:
Laura was born in the deepest depths of rural Oxfordshire in 1977, from a very early age she distinguished herself as a profoundly uninteresting and talentless child. That all changed on an auspicious occasion at the tender age of four when she fell from her bedroom window onto a parsley patch. Emerging from the fragrant herb bed she rose triumphant and proclaimed loudly 'I AM A POET!’ Her ever-fretful mother, first on the scene, respectfully disagreed, and applying a cold compress thoughtfully reminded her daughter of the need for vigilance at all times, and the dangers of Botulism.
Her father, marginally more supportive of her newfound literary bent, encouraged her in her whimsical fantasies and eventually emerged the poet who today we love.
Laura writes uplifting, life affirming, insightful poetry in which she mythologises the mundane. Her poems full of humanity and are often tinged with nostalgia. She conjures scenes from country and city life, and themes of love and grief are often woven into her work. Her writing creates evocative landscapes for the heart and the imagination and with food as a frequent theme: sometimes even the stomach. On Instagram she shares her work under the pseudonym Elsierhymes and she regularly performs at open mic events around Bristol and has had her poems featured on BBC radio.
BEN DALI:
Ben Dali is the UK's only mentalist-hypnotist-cum-comedian-poet. After years of working as a cruise ship gameshow host, he turned to the psychological arts, mesmerising audiences across the country and Edinburgh Fringe, before moving to Bristol and entrancing his audiences with humour and wordplay rather than trances. Come get entranced (humourously and wordplayously).
JODI MUSTARD:
Jodi Mustard started writing and performing poetry In the wake of a tricky break up in 2024, but has written and performed music for many years in different bands ranging from surf punk to doom metal. In her most recent band she played bass guitar and toured in the US for a month before leaving the band to "pursue other projects".
Jodi writes about difficult emotional experiences, dark thoughts and murders she says she definitely didn't commit. She writes revealing and honest poems, in desperate pursuit of a sense of acknowledgement and resolve, and hopes that others can feel seen too.
Her love for poetry came from her grandad (Ron Tiner), a comic book illustrator and author known for his work in the sci-fi and fantasy realms.
In her spare time she likes to play 5-aside football, ride her Harley-Davidson chopper and drag her nails down chalkboards.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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