Forget Me Not is a new exhibition exploring the relationship between poetry and pictures in Victorian and Edwardian greetings cards. The show aims to provide a snapshot of the Laura Seddon Collection, brimming with over 32,500 examples of 19th-century greetings cards and one of the largest and most comprehensive sources for their study.
Free entry
We’re back in the hostelry below Manchester’s best-kept library secret where the Portico Prize 2020 was awarded to then debut novelist Jessica Andrews – today she is launching her second book, Milk Teeth, reading extracts and chatting about it with Lara Williams.
From £3.00
It’s the 31st anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry, and this year the glittering ceremony will take place in Leeds.
From £15.00
Join award-winning writer and broadcaster Anita Sethi for a creative writing workshop at The Whitworth art gallery.
Free entry
We’re excited for the launch of Rookie: Selected Poems by Forward Prize-winning poet Caroline Bird, when she will be reading from the new collection, out with Manchester-based Carcanet Press, and chatting about it with fellow poet Rachel Long.
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Head to Blackwell’s book store for the Manchester launch of Camilla Grudova’s debut novel, Children Of Paradise, and hear from an acclaimed new author who has been compared to Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood.
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Dutch-Antillean poet Radna Fabias joins Kim Moore to read from their latest work at this special event at Manchester Poetry Library, subtitled Ways of Seeing.
Free entry
André Naffis-Sahely will be launching his most recent collection of poems, High Desert, at Manchester Poetry Library with readings from the book and a discussion with author Adam O’Riordan.
Free entry
Join Ian Pople as he launches his new poetry collection Spillway: New and Selected Poems, and talks about it with fellow Carcanet poet Evan Jones.
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Join Peter Sansom as he launches his new poetry collection Lanyard, and talks about it with fellow Carcanet poet Ian Pople.
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Join Lucie McKnight Hardy to celebrate the launch of three new short story collections: Animals At Night by Naomi Booth, Hearts And Bones by Niamh Mulvey and Send Nudes by Saba Sams.
From £3.00
Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries is back with a programme of 80 events for all running from Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 June.
Free entry
