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Date: Friday 25th April 2025
Venue: Waterstones (Bristol Galleries)
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Tickets: FREE
New Lyrical Ballads: Coleridge and Wordsworth
Dr Jessica Fay (University of Birmingham) and Professor Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) will join poets Reshma Ruia and Pete Bearder, who have written contemporary responses to the Lyrical Ballads. Chaired by Andrew Kelly, former Director of Bristol Ideas, who led the 2015 New Lyrical Ballads project in Bristol.
225 years after the publication of Lyrical Ballads Volume 2, and 230 years since Wordsworth and Coleridge met for the first time in Bristol, join us for a lively discussion around the enduring legacy of two giants of the Romantic poetry movement. This panel event will include discussions of the text and how its social and environmental themes are relevant today.
Presented in association with Bristol Poetry Institute.
Dr Reshma Ruia:
Dr. Reshma Ruia has written two novels, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, and Still Lives, winner of the 2023 Diverse Book Readers’ Choice Award and longlisted for the 2023 Peoples Book Award. She has published a poetry collection, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, winner of the 2019 Word Masala Award and a short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness, shortlisted for the 2022 Eastern Eye ACTA Award.
Reshma’s work has appeared in anthologies and journals both national and international, and commissioned by the BBC, University of Cumbria and Manchester Literature Festival.
Jessica Fay:
Jessica Fay has published work on a range of poets from the Romantic period. She is author of Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance: Poetry, Place, and a Sense of Community (2018) and is currently preparing an edition of The Poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
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Entry requirements: no age restrictions
All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Friday 25th April 2025
Venue: Waterstones (Bristol Galleries)
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Tickets: FREE
New Lyrical Ballads: Coleridge and Wordsworth
Dr Jessica Fay (University of Birmingham) and Professor Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) will join poets Reshma Ruia and Pete Bearder, who have written contemporary responses to the Lyrical Ballads. Chaired by Andrew Kelly, former Director of Bristol Ideas, who led the 2015 New Lyrical Ballads project in Bristol.
225 years after the publication of Lyrical Ballads Volume 2, and 230 years since Wordsworth and Coleridge met for the first time in Bristol, join us for a lively discussion around the enduring legacy of two giants of the Romantic poetry movement. This panel event will include discussions of the text and how its social and environmental themes are relevant today.
Presented in association with Bristol Poetry Institute.
Dr Reshma Ruia:
Dr. Reshma Ruia has written two novels, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, and Still Lives, winner of the 2023 Diverse Book Readers’ Choice Award and longlisted for the 2023 Peoples Book Award. She has published a poetry collection, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, winner of the 2019 Word Masala Award and a short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness, shortlisted for the 2022 Eastern Eye ACTA Award.
Reshma’s work has appeared in anthologies and journals both national and international, and commissioned by the BBC, University of Cumbria and Manchester Literature Festival.
Jessica Fay:
Jessica Fay has published work on a range of poets from the Romantic period. She is author of Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance: Poetry, Place, and a Sense of Community (2018) and is currently preparing an edition of The Poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Filters:
Live Event ✓
Free Event ✓
BSL Interpreted ✓
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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