An Evening with Tracy K Smith

By BWV Community Reporter Hannah Hier On a hectic, rainy wednesday evening I got the pleasure of attending Bristol Festival of Ideas event: a poetry reading and Q and A with Tracy K Smith- America’s 22nd Poet Laureate since 2017. It was a delight to step into the peaceful solitude of Waterstones bookshop and experience […]
Joan Smith at the Festival of Ideas – Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men into Terrorists

Our Community Reporter Laura Hillier attended a talk by the writer, journalist and human rights campaigner Joan Smith. Her talk at Waterstones on 29th May was a part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas and focused on her new book ‘Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men into Terrorists’, in conversation with Finn MacKay. A […]