Monday 1st December 2025, 5pm
ARTS COMPLEX Lecture Theatre 2, Woodland Road
Toby Martinez de las Rivas has published three full collections with Faber & Faber. Black Sun (2018) was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Terror (2014) was shortlisted for The Portico Prize and Michael Marks Award. His most recent book is Floodmeadow (2023), and his work is included in Penguin Modern Poets 7 (Penguin, 2018) with Geoffrey Hill and Rowan Evans. In 2014 he won the Wiener Holocaust Library International Book Art Prize for a collaborative book commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, and has also won The Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North and an Eric Gregory Award. He was the 2023/24 Blackburn Distinguished Artist in Residence at Duke University, and has also taught or held residencies at Newcastle University, The Museum of English Rural Life, The Hunter Writers Centre in Newcastle, Australia, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His recent work embraces sound art and multimedia poetries, and is particularly engaged with the intersection between theology, faith and the natural world.
A Bristol Poetry Institute event