Braid Poetry Evening : The New Nature of Flight

An evening of poetry with Braid, a Bristol poetry collective of Kaycee Hill, Kate Noakes & Elizabeth Parker.

Mixed-heritage poet Kaycee Hill has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry

Poetry Prize in 2023 and her debut collection Hot Sauce was published by Bloodaxe later that year. Sound system culture and

sonic inheritance form the foundation of her current work, which examines themes of connection and community.

Kate Noakes has published eight collections of poetry and a pamphlet, the most recent are Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press,

2023) and Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). Of Welsh heritage, she has a PhD in Creative Writing from the

University of Reading.

Elizabeth Parker has an MA in Mythology from Bristol University. Her two Seren collections are In Her Shambles (2018) and

Cormorant (2024). Born in London and growing up in The Forest of Dean, Elizabeth’s poetry explores her and her family’s origins—

from ancestors in Ireland to her parents’ roots in Liverpool and Smethwick.