Lunchtime Lecture: As British as Fish and Chips – Refugees and the English Channel – A Poetry Indaba
A talk and poetry reading (indaba) with Ambrose Musiyiwa, a poet and journalist, and Helen Moore, a Bristol-based ecopoet and academic.
Musiyiwa co-edits the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series, which has recently published As British as Fish and Chips, an anthology of writings by and about refugees crossing the English Channel.
Moore, whose latest collection, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas (Palewell Press, 2026), bears witness to forced migration and its links with the climate / ecological crisis.
When: Thursday 11 June 2026, 12.30pm – 13.30pm
Where: Bristol Central Library, Deanery Road, City Centre, Bristol BS1 5TL
About the Speakers:
Ambrose Musiyiwa is a poet and journalist with a background in the intersection between activism, migration, and community action. He coordinates Journeys in Translation, an international, volunteer-driven initiative that is translating Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for those seeking refuge (Five Leaves Publications, 2015) into other languages. He is also on the editorial board of the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series.
https://forcedmigrationandthearts.blogspot.com/
Dr Helen Moore is a pioneering British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer and scholar. She has published three internationally acclaimed ecopoetry collections, and her fourth, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas, is forthcoming from Palewell Press in May 2026. Helen curates ECOPOETIKON, an online showcase of global ecopoetries, and teaches at two British universities. She is currently working on a climate memoir about wild Atlantic Salmons.
www.helenmoorepoet.com
Instagram: @helenmooreecopoet