This month Poetry Film Club features the work of digital artist and writer Martin Rieser and new work by local poet Beccy Golding. Poetry films that have song as a vital element will also be shown.
Beccy Golding is a poet, fool and arts administrator.
She has been writing since she could hold a pen but found her voice as a poet in the last five years. She is an irregular performer on Bristol’s spoken word circuit, and has written a poem a day every day since April 2021, posting them on Instagram under the name Friday Is Poets Day (1300 so far…).
She’s had commissions from Lyra Poetry Festival and Word of Mouth, has a poem in the Hot Poets climate action anthology, and produces Stone the Crones – creative writing workshops and spoken word events for older / aging / elder women.
Beccy writes about life and grief, motherhood, womanhood and being a human.
Beccy has known Paula Hufton since they were play workers together in their 20s. They started their music and poetry collaboration in 2021.
Martin Rieser is both a poet and visual artist. His interactive installations based on his poetry have been shown around the world, including Understanding Echo shown in Japan 2002, Hosts Bath Abbey 2006, Secret Door Invideo Milan 2006, The Street RMIT Gallery Melbourne 2008/ISEA Belfast 2009, Secret Garden, Phoenix Square 2012/Taipei 2013 and RUR at Glyndebourne in 2014 for REFRAME at the University of Sussex.
He has developed mobile artworks using interactive text and image for Leicester, London and Athens and exhibited the Third Woman Interactive film in Vienna, Xian and New York. He runs the Stanza poetry group in Bristol.
Published: Poetry Review, Write to be Counted,The Unpredicted Spring 2020, Magma 74, Morphrog 22,Poetry kit;2017 Primers Volume 3, Artlyst Anthology 2020; Cerasus Magazine Anthology and chapbook competition longtlist 2024, Alchemy Spoon 2022, Ink Sweat and Tears 2019/2023, Acumen 2024, Shortlisted: Frosted Fire 2019 /2022, Charles Causeley Prize 2020; Runner up Norman Nicholson 2020; Winner of the Hastings Poetry Competition 202. Shortlisted Wolves Poetry Competition 2022, Longlisted Erbecce Prize 2023, Shortlisted Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition and in Anthology 2023/24