A event held at Watershed on Sunday 27th April. The event starts at 12:30.
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All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 12:30 - 13:30
Tickets: FREE
Eco-Weirding: Harry Josephine Giles + Caleb Parkin
Join Harry Josephine Giles and Caleb Parkin for a vibrant afternoon reading from their newly published books, both with themes around ecosystems, technologies, and singing of new possibilities.
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility.
Caleb Parkin’s second poetry collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes, ecosystems and bodies. At times hyperreal and surreal, adventurous and technicolour, Mingle fizzes with the possibilities of queered language and altered states of poetic form.
Harry Josephine Giles:
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. www.harryjosephine.com
Caleb Parkin:
Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, has poems in The Guardian, The Rialto, The Poetry Review and was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. He has three pamphlets, his debut collection, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and his second collection, Mingle, is due October 2024. He tutors for Arvon, Poetry Society, Poetry School and elsewhere. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is a practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter.
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All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 12:30 - 13:30
Tickets: FREE
Eco-Weirding: Harry Josephine Giles + Caleb Parkin
Join Harry Josephine Giles and Caleb Parkin for a vibrant afternoon reading from their newly published books, both with themes around ecosystems, technologies, and singing of new possibilities.
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility.
Caleb Parkin’s second poetry collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes, ecosystems and bodies. At times hyperreal and surreal, adventurous and technicolour, Mingle fizzes with the possibilities of queered language and altered states of poetic form.
Harry Josephine Giles:
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. www.harryjosephine.com
Caleb Parkin:
Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, has poems in The Guardian, The Rialto, The Poetry Review and was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. He has three pamphlets, his debut collection, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and his second collection, Mingle, is due October 2024. He tutors for Arvon, Poetry Society, Poetry School and elsewhere. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is a practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Filters:
Live Event ✓
Free Event ✓
Online/Streamed ✓
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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