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  • Poetry in Herons – Glyn Maxwell

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Join us for Poetry In Herons with Glyn Maxwell

    6pm, Saturday 12th October.
    Glyn Maxwell’s most recent poetry books are The Big Calls, a broadside against recent UK government, and How The Hell Are You, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize in 2020. Seven of his poetry collections have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot, Forward or Costa Prizes, and The Nerve won the Geoffrey Faber Prize.

    You can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.
    Tickets are £4 or free with the purchase of either The Big Calls or How the Hell Are You. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival.

    The evening will begin with a reading from Kaycee Hill, followed by Glyn's reading.

    Kaycee is a working-class, mixed-heritage poet studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and received mentorship from Malika Booker. Bloodaxe recently published her debut collection, Hot Sauce.

    £4.00 – £12.00

  • Jan Carson – University of Bristol

    Arts Complex, University of Bristol Arts Complex Woodland Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Heron Books will be at the University of Bristol, with stacks of books by the brilliant Jan Carson, winner of the EU Prize for Literature Jan will be giving a reading and a Q&A, organised by the English department. Not to be missed! You can order Quickly, While They Still Have Horses or The Raptures through the links and we will bring them to the event or send us an email (read heronbooks.co.uk) to reserve a copy at the event. Tuesday, 15 October, 3-4 p.m., 1.H020 Humanities Research Space, Woodland Road, BS8 1TB

  • Brian Bilston & Henry Normal

    St George's, Bristol St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Brian Bilston and Henry Normal appear together for the first time in a show which one critic has described as “two people reading some poems”. Along the way, they will be drawing on their vast catalogue of crowd favourites – and throwing in new poems, to prevent becoming their own tribute bands. We are delighted to be supporting this event at St George's, Bristol. Look forward to seeing you there! Full details and tickets here: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brian-bilston-henry-normal/

  • Brad Evans

    Clifton Library 13 Princess Victoria St, Bristol, United Kingdom

    How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

    Heron Books is delighted to support this event with author Brad Evans hosted by the Friends of Clifton Centre and Library 

    How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and suffering, the tragedy and pain, as a politically abandoned people went from powering the British Empire and the Great Wars, to a broken post-industrial community, lost in time. It travels with devastating and yet humane insight across the dark shadows of the valley’s history.

  • Ultimate Dinosaurs with Ben Garrod

    Tobacco Factory Theatre The Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Rd, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Ultimate Dinosaurs is the hit sold-out stage show starring dinosaur aficionado Professor Ben Garrod. Get ready to go on an exciting pre-historic adventure as Ben talks you through the deadliest predators that ever roamed the planet.  Yes dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex,  Allosaurus and Spinosaurus would have walked or swam right where you are now!
    30th October - 2nd November, 11am and 2pm each day for one hour. 

  • Noreen Masud – A Flat Place

    Clifton Library 13 Princess Victoria St, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Lizzie will be interviewing Noreen Masud as part of Clifton LitFest 2024, organised by the Friends of the Clifton Centre and Library.

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award 2024, Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place has been described as raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain.

  • Poetry in Herons Party with Carrie Etter

    The Lansdown 8 Clifton Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Our monthly poetry event combines with a festive party hosted by The Lansdown on Thursday 21st November.
    We are delighted to welcome back Carrie Etter. 
    Arrive from 18.30. Poetry will commence shortly after. Partying will continue until late. 

    Carrie Etter has published five collections of poetry. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol.

    You can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop. A few tickets may be available on the door.
    Tickets only are £4 or £10.99 with the purchase of Carrie's books. We will provide a glass of something sparkling on arrival. The bar downstairs will be open throughout the night. 

    £4.00 – £10.99

  • Poetry and Science with Michael Malay, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton

    Bristol Folk House 40a Park St, Bristol

    Poetry and Science - the unbridgeable divide that doesn't exist
    featuring Michael Malay, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton

    Bristol Humanists and Heron Books invite you to:

    A mid-winter social, discussion and performance, with 3 very special guests, exploring the unbridgeable divide - that doesn't exist - between poetry and science.

    https://wegottickets.com/event/638412 

  • 2025 Poetry in Herons

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Our monthly poetry series has a little break for a couple of months over winter. We return from March. Exciting announcements about the 2025 programme coming soon and lots of events and book groups to celebrate before then. Happy reading and we hope to see you at an event and in the shop soon.  

  • A Moving Weekend

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Ahead of our move to 7a Regent Street, we are offering 10% off for our last weekend in the Arcade. That's the whole event. Very simple. 1st-2nd February. 10% off everything you buy in the shop. Whilst your here, you could also reminisce with us about the stunning surroundings in which Heron Books first began. Come and gaze with us at the glass roof, thinking of the majesty of the place (probably while beset by deafening hail, given the current storms). Come and speculate with us about whether that weird hum is the ghost of the Arcade’s architect. Come and congratulate us on the sheer amount of weetabix we’re consuming in order to carry out the move. Major arm muscles developing here. And then please continue to come and enjoy our little independent when we open at 7a Regent Street just round the corner.

  • We Have Flown Away to 7a

    Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    At 9.30 on 8th Feburary, Heron Books opens a new door at 7a Regent Street. Please do come and see us on 8th February to find out if we've managed to shelve all the books in their new location. In the morning we'll have some sweet treats to offer from our favourite East Village Cafe. In the (early) evening, we'll be having a little party: (Not actually) champagne served from 4.45. A couple of silly words from me from 5pm. A couple of wise poems from Bob Walton. And then some more drinks until 6pm. Hope to see lots of you there.

  • Growing up Human with Dr Brenna Hassett

    Bristol Folk House 40a Park St, Bristol

    We are delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us – our uniquely long childhoods. In the Darwin Day lecture Brenna Hassett will look at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay 'forever young' – or at least what seems like forever – and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story. Full details and tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/643698