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The book of themed walks around the city published for Bristol800.

Publications produced as part of Festival of the Future City.

Close your eyesPicture the house of your dreams.Is it nestled in the wooded ribs of a glade,laced by the gentle sound of the sea?Perhaps perched on a hill overlookingThe twinkling lights of the cityLooking down at those thatlive side by side and top to toe.When we imagine perfect homesThey’re tucked away on private acresUnsullied by […]

Book of walks and book of essays published as part of Homes for Heroes 100.

Up here, the suburbs broadcastover hot air tonight: a beat, a cry,a siren – the evening as closeand still as a cyclone’s eye.We loop Ridgeway Field onceagain, where the dogs disturbus with their closeness. Not eventhe trees’ vivid flags stir: their branch-tip semaphore ignoring autumn.Returning, at the top of the stairsa red flare arcs overhead […]

The cars cough tarand the air hangs thick,the trees sigh slowas our kids get sick.Our fears hang looseas the warped clock tocks,it tock tick tocksand our slack jaws lock.We flex our wrists*cough* clear our throats,heads come togetheras we see what floats.We swallow our fearthough it haunts our ribs,solemn vows of changehang heavy on lips.The cars […]

Vanessa Kisuule, Bristol City Poet, wrote the following poem to mark the occasion. When the overwhelming tideof things threatens to drown me,sink pincers into my skinhold these shoulders hostage,I remember the small gracesfrom which all change takes subtle cues For example: there is often a line in a poem,A scatter of letters, the humblest imagethat sets […]

You wrestle your bike from the shed and stand holding either handlebars. You shut your eyes and tilt your head towards the morning sun. If you are commuting correctly, the tip of your nose should be almost at freezing temperature, perhaps slightly wet like that of a healthy Great Dane. You take one huge swing […]

Women today are told they need to be thin and beautiful. They are told to wear longer skirts, to avoid going out late at night and to move in groups – to never accept drinks from a stranger, and to wear shoes they can run in more easily than heels. They are told to wear […]

In its absence, I travel regularly through my memories to the most beautiful moments of that long-standing love. Sometimes shared with family, sometimes with colleagues and friends, even if alone or shared with strangers, cinema-going is an enchantment, alive in my heart and soul. Growing up in Australia, my earliest memories of cinema are like […]

Writer to be based at Knowle West Media Centre.

The Tiswas team reunite this April to share their memories of the series.