Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has brought together 30 poets from around the world to create a powerful new body of work, A Poetic Declaration, which will be unveiled at three events as part of the Ripples Of Hope Festival.
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The quarterly virtual spoken word event dedicated to children’s and YA literature welcomes Ciaran Murtagh as its first guest in 2022.
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Poet Caroline Bird joins Home Stage online for a reading from her most recent book with Manchester’s Carcanet Press.
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Every second Saturday of the month, Leeds Record & Book Fair is indoors at Kirkgate Market, one of Europe’s largest indoor markets. Next dates are 14 August, 11 September, 9 October, 13 November and 11 December.
Free entry
Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan will be reading from his third collection, pandemonium, and chatting about it in this online event streaming live from Leeds’ independent queer bookshop The Bookish Type.
Free entry
Manchester-based not-for-profit publisher Fly On The Wall Press has teamed up with Blackwell’s Manchester to present this showcase of three exciting local authors, David Hartley, Louise Finnigan and Tina Tamsho-Thomas, who will be reading from their latest releases.
Free entry
Celebrate the launch of Records Of An Incitement To Silence, the new Carcanet collection by poet and cultural historian Gregory Woods, and his sixth, with a live online reading hosted by poet Richard Scott.
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Manchester Libraries invite all four to eleven year olds to join the free Summer Reading Challenge running for six weeks through the summer holidays, until 18 September.
Free entry
Join Henry Normal online every Wednesday in September as he chats and shares poems with award-winning wordsmiths from Salford’s Flapjack Press.
Free entry
Alex Wong launches Shadow And Refrain: Poems And Translations, his second collection with Manchester’s Carcanet Press.
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Emily Skillings has edited Parallel Movement Of The Hands: Five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery, and will be reading from and discussing the new edition with Carcanet poet Oli Hazzard.
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Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lemn Sissay, this new multifaceted group show – created as part of Manchester International Festival 2021 and continuing at HOME until 29 August – connects words and images and explores the poet as artist and the artist as poet.
