This Spring we have been writing poetry about Bristol Harbour. We decided to do an audio walk around the Harbour as Rob Traill, one of our Poetry Group members, walks around by the water often and gets a lot of peace and inspiration from it. When we talked more about the Harbour everyone realised they had safe spaces that they liked to visit, so we spent a few weeks exploring and sharing these with each other and creating poems. The poetry walk was launched as part of the Bristol Lyra Poetry Festival.
You can still listen to these poems if you have a phone and headphones. You will need to download the Echoes App on your phone, the walk is called ‘Misfits on the Move‘ and there is a QR code at the bottom of this page.
The walk starts at the Mirror Ball by ‘We the Curious’. You can find this using the map on the Echoes App which will guide you. You can go and do the walk at any time.
More about the Misfits Poetry Group:
The Poetry Group is lead by Anita. We meet each Friday afternoon and have been running for 5 years. We love getting out and about. We have had poetry exhibitions all over Bristol at the Council Houses, City Library, and Hamilton House. In 2016 we took over the Bear Pit – cleaned up a tunnel and put up poetry posters.
At the Misfits we believe that raising visibility of and for adults with learning disabilities is vital in challenging and changing attitudes of mainstream culture.
QR code for audio walk around the harbour
