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Ralph Hoyte
“I am a Bristol-based poet, writer and text-based artist: by 'text-based artist' I mean I also look at text visually and sculpturally. I was born in England of Trinidadian/ English parentage, and spent most of my childhood in Jamaica. As well as designing the Outpatients Welcome Wall for the new hospital (with Steve Joyce, sculptor in metal), I am currently writing the definitive 21st century Arthurian Epic and working on 'Writing in the Margins' with the BBC Writers' Room.”
Major commissions I have completed include:
- English Heritage at Tintagel Castle (Year of the Artist 2000)
- Bristol Legible City (a 600m long 'city epic' literally stuck down on the streets of Bristol, up and over several buildings and completely around two ferry boats)
- Bristol 2008 Capital of Culture (as poet in residence)
- Solihull MBC (creating 'poem sculptures')
- Culture South West ('linking up' and exhibition)
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This poem, JM2p, has a Gloucester connection as it was written for the BLAST! Young People's Festival in Nov 2002
Go give a Townie
A chocolate brownie
Go give a Chav
What they don't have
Go give a Goth (or one of that ilk)
One penn'orth of cherry-coloured silk
Go give a Greebo
A placebo
HEY! KIT! OK?
(JM2p='just my 2 pennyworth' in text language; 'townies, chavs, goths and greebos' are 'tribes' of young people; 'cherry-coloured silk is from 'The Tailor of Gloucester'; KIT='keep in touch')
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