Sarah-Clare Conlon

Leeds live literature regular Chemistry offers an exciting mix of open mic acts and invited poets – this month the headliners include Rosie Garland.

Hear Polly Barton and Zarina Muhammad discuss Polly’s book Porn: An Oral History and delve into the unspoken forces shaping our society.

Head to The Leeds Library for Chelping, a celebration of contemporary poetry, taking place four times a year.

Leeds Poetry Festival is back with “another huge celebration of writing that we love and poets that we get to know”, serving up performances, interviews, workshops and open mics.

Join Manchester Cathedral’s new Writer-In-Residence Tom Branfoot for a six-week series of poetry workshops, entitled Doubt Wisely.

Roger McGough was one of the famous Liverpool Poets of the Sixties and now’s your chance to catch him on home turf.

Jorie Graham is considered one of the most celebrated living American poets and is the recipient of awards including the Pulitzer Prize.

Join American writer Melissa Febos – the bestselling author of four books, including award-winning essay collection Girlhood – as she lands in Manchester on a rare trip, talking about her latest tome, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, with Manchester Writing School’s Helen Mort.

As part of the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing Literature Live series, poet and academic Jason Allen-Paisant will be reading from and discussing his new collection of poetry, Self-Portrait As Othello, out with Manchester publisher Carcanet Press.

Manchester-based poet and novelist Phoebe Walker launches her debut novel Temper – out with Fairlight Books on 13 April – with a special event at the recently reopened and renovated Portico Library.

To mark the publication of his latest short format book, Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso’s Paris Nightlife, former Haçienda DJ Dave Haslam is going on tour.

Hop on the tour bus as Jen Calleja rolls into Sale to launch her debut novel Vehicle, published by Prototype, reading from the work and in conversation with fellow writer H Gareth Gavin.