This free exhibition delves into the “polite literature” slogan that greets visitors to the Portico Library, bringing together contemporary artworks and research with 18th-century prints by satirist William Hogarth and books from the Library’s historic collection.
Free entry
If you’re new to writing poems, or would like to give a new direction a go, this online class offers an engaging and inspiring journey through the delights of poetry.
From £5.00
The Reader are running a new Shared Reading Group for adults in Withington Library, fortnightly on a Wednesday evening.
Free entry
Creative writing lecturer at the Centre for New Writing Beth Underdown launches her new gothic thriller, The Key In The Lock.
From £3.00
Find Peter and his Christiania cargo bike around All Saints Park, a hop, skip and a bunnyhop from Manchester Poetry Library.
UNITOM is home to a wide array of publications on contemporary art, design, fashion, photography and counterculture, alongside an extensive range of independent magazines.
The season of events celebrating Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic novel North And South continues with a look at the TV adaptation.
From £4.00
We don’t think award-winning Canadian poet and performer Rose Condo sits still. Only just now she was promoting her debut poetry collection, she has an appearance at Chorlton’s Tickle Your Fancy cabaret night lined up and here she is on stage with a revised version of her live show The Empathy Experiment.
From £7
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette is our regular avant-garde poetry fix, serving up a smorgasbord of experimental writing.
Free entry
From the illustrated book for young readers of the same name, out with Salford-based Flapjack Press, the story of Dommy B’s Best Adventure Ever! hits the stage, complete with plenty of memorable, magical verse and lots and lots of laughs from the CBeebies Rhyme Rocket poet.
From £7.50
The Talleyrand in Levenshulme presents a one-off festive reading featuring ghost stories for Christmas, all written by some of the North West’s best authors and performed in near-total darkness.
Free entry
Award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell heads to Manchester Poetry Library to read from her third collection, Resurrection of a Black Man.
Free entry
