Jay Bernard FRSL (born 1988) is a British writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London, UK.
Bernard has been a programmer at BFI Flare since 2014[1] and co-editor of Oxford Poetry,[2] and their fiction, non-fiction, and art has been published in many national and international magazines and newspapers.
[4] The reviewer for The London Magazine wrote: "Jay Bernard has created a rare and beautiful thing.
Employing metrical ballads and concrete poems with equal vigour, Bernard takes us on a visual and allusive journey to test the imagination, thus putting the poet's resources of sight and sound to full use ... reading The Red and Yellow Nothing brings continuous surprise.
"[5] Bernard won the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for their multimedia performance work Surge: Side A,[6] that includes the film Something Said, inspired by the 1981 New Cross house fire[7][8][9] and archives held at the George Padmore Institute, where they were the first poet-in-residence.