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🔵 South West England's acclaimed poetry and live arts events.
✍️ 2025 Artist Development Programme funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
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Applications for our 2025 Writing Retreats close at 20:00 today! Open to poets based in South West England.

Affordable, friendly retreats aimed at emerging+ and mid-career poets, led by Joelle Taylor, Nikita Gill, Anthony Anaxagorou + many more!

www.rtbspokenword.com/courses
April 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Poetry and Resistance with @rtbspokenword.com
Featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan + MORE at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social
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February 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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My poem “Tell Good People Good Things” is currently on display at the Raise The Bar: Poetry & Resistance Exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol! Here’s some photos from last nights launch with thanks to @rtbspokenword.com & @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social Thank you! 🙌🏾❤️‍🔥 @canongate.co.uk
Tell Good People Good Things by Salena Godden Tell each other you love each other. Say love. Show your love. Speak it. Do not wait to talk to a flower in the hope the dead will hear the love you could've said before. Do not wait to talk to headstones and weep at faded photographs. You are alive now. So love now. Tell your good people all the good things. Tell each other you love each other. Do not wait to softly weep to flickering candles or cry your love to a flower too late. Say love. Show your love. Share it. Images from the show ‘Poetry & Resistance’ poets Salena Godden and Nikita Gill pictured here
March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Here’s a little film of Poetry & Resistance exhibition in Arnolfini: see work featured from @lowkey.bsky.social @aanaxagorou.bsky.social @nikitagill.bsky.social and many many more… thank you @dannycarlo.com @rtbspokenword.com 🙌🏾🙌🏾
March 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Check out @rtbspokenword.com's Writing Retreats, which offer a chance for poets in South West England to refresh, meet other creatives, create new work, enjoy world-class tutoring and learn key career skills to take their practice to the next level.
www.rtbspokenword.com/courses
Courses & Writing Retreats — Raise The Bar
Explore courses and writing retreats from Raise The Bar - the South West's leading live poetry night.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM