Bebe Ashley Confetti

Throughout the festival, poet Bebe Ashley (and her 3D printer) will be based at The Crescent where she’ll be using words and lines suggested by festival audiences to create a new poem that she will code and print into Grade One Braille. 

Join Bebe on Sunday afternoon where she will present Bebe will present the poem printed in recycled plastics. Audience members will be able to take away a fragment of the poem and by doing so are encouraged to increase their awareness of the accessibility of literature. 

Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. Her work is most recently published in bath magg, Poetry Ireland Review, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut collection Gold Light Shining was published by Banshee Press.

In 2021, Bebe was longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and awarded a Chair of Ireland Poetry Trust Award. Most recently, Bebe was selected as one of nine artists to receive a Digital Evolution Award in support of a project Confetti that explores poetic potential of Braille and 3D printing.