A event on Tuesday 17th September. The event starts at 19:30.
About the book:
‘Love the Albatross’ is a meditation on inter-generational relationships, estrangement and silence, in which people communicate through messages in bottles, birds and dreams, fragmented memories assume mythological status, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions escape their labyrinths and run wild.
Parent-child estrangement is a largely taboo subject that’s rarely discussed, such is the social stigma surrounding it. These poems are for those on both sides of the divide. They contain no judgement; they are merely an attempt to break the silence and give agency to those caught up in it.
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Event timings and venue details:
Doors & Bar open - 7pm
Night starts - 7:30pm
Night ends - 10pm
The John Sebastian Lightship, Cabot Cruising Club, Bathurst Basin, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6SG
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About the featured acts:
Deborah Harvey has an MA in Creative Writing and is co-director of The Leaping Word, a poetry consultancy providing creative and editorial advice for writers. She runs poetry groups, and the long-standing open mic, Silver Street Poetry. With her fellow IsamBards, she conducts poetry walks in Bristol and surrounding area.
Deborah’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please, and awarded several prizes. Love the Albatross (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2024) is her sixth poetry collection.
Website: https://theleapingword.com/
Twitter Deborah Harvey Poetry @DeborahEHarvey
Colin Brown is a counsellor with a background in poetry, literature, disability arts and community education. Director of Poetry Can from 2003 to 2018, Colin has helped to support and develop the work of hundreds of poets across the UK and the rest of the world.
In addition to counselling, Colin offers a specialist service for writers and artists engaging with personal experience through their work.
Website: https://longshipscounselling.com/
Chaucer Cameron is the author of In an Ideal World I’d not Be Murdered (Against the Grain 2021). She has been published in: Poetry Wales, Under the Radar, Poetry Salzburg, The North, and Tears in the Fence, and was shortlisted for Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2021. Chaucer is creator of Wild Whispers poetry film project and co-editor of the online magazine Poetry Film Live. Chaucer’s poetry film collection adapted from her book is now touring nationally and internationally.
Website: www.chaucercameron.com
Twitter Chaucer @ChaucerCameron
Melanie Branton is the paramilitary wing of post-menopausal spinsters. She is currently thoroughly enjoying touring her show The Full English, which tells the history of the English language, from gangs of gung-ho Anglo-Saxons to gammons and Covidiots, through the media of performance poetry, silly hats and dad jokes. Her published collections are My Cloth-Eared Heart (Oversteps, 2017), Can You See Where I’m Coming From? (Burning Eye, 2018) and The Full English (self-published, 2023). She was longlisted in the 2022 National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the 2023 Bridport Prize for Poetry.
Website: https://melaniebranton.wordpress.com/
Twitter Melanie Branton @sapiencedowne
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
‘Love the Albatross’ is a meditation on inter-generational relationships, estrangement and silence, in which people communicate through messages in bottles, birds and dreams, fragmented memories assume mythological status, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions escape their labyrinths and run wild.
Parent-child estrangement is a largely taboo subject that’s rarely discussed, such is the social stigma surrounding it. These poems are for those on both sides of the divide. They contain no judgement; they are merely an attempt to break the silence and give agency to those caught up in it.
***********************************************************
Event timings and venue details:
Doors & Bar open - 7pm
Night starts - 7:30pm
Night ends - 10pm
The John Sebastian Lightship, Cabot Cruising Club, Bathurst Basin, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6SG
***********************************************************
About the featured acts:
Deborah Harvey has an MA in Creative Writing and is co-director of The Leaping Word, a poetry consultancy providing creative and editorial advice for writers. She runs poetry groups, and the long-standing open mic, Silver Street Poetry. With her fellow IsamBards, she conducts poetry walks in Bristol and surrounding area.
Deborah’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please, and awarded several prizes. Love the Albatross (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2024) is her sixth poetry collection.
Website: https://theleapingword.com/
Twitter Deborah Harvey Poetry @DeborahEHarvey
Colin Brown is a counsellor with a background in poetry, literature, disability arts and community education. Director of Poetry Can from 2003 to 2018, Colin has helped to support and develop the work of hundreds of poets across the UK and the rest of the world.
In addition to counselling, Colin offers a specialist service for writers and artists engaging with personal experience through their work.
Website: https://longshipscounselling.com/
Chaucer Cameron is the author of In an Ideal World I’d not Be Murdered (Against the Grain 2021). She has been published in: Poetry Wales, Under the Radar, Poetry Salzburg, The North, and Tears in the Fence, and was shortlisted for Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2021. Chaucer is creator of Wild Whispers poetry film project and co-editor of the online magazine Poetry Film Live. Chaucer’s poetry film collection adapted from her book is now touring nationally and internationally.
Website: www.chaucercameron.com
Twitter Chaucer @ChaucerCameron
Melanie Branton is the paramilitary wing of post-menopausal spinsters. She is currently thoroughly enjoying touring her show The Full English, which tells the history of the English language, from gangs of gung-ho Anglo-Saxons to gammons and Covidiots, through the media of performance poetry, silly hats and dad jokes. Her published collections are My Cloth-Eared Heart (Oversteps, 2017), Can You See Where I’m Coming From? (Burning Eye, 2018) and The Full English (self-published, 2023). She was longlisted in the 2022 National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the 2023 Bridport Prize for Poetry.
Website: https://melaniebranton.wordpress.com/
Twitter Melanie Branton @sapiencedowne
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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