Explore the work of two of the finest English writers of the 20th century in what promises to be a fascinating talk looking at how the relationship of DH Lawrence with his mother influenced his work and how that, in turn, affected Philip Larkin’s poetry.
From £4
The fifth Festival Of Libraries is a five-day multi-venue celebration of Greater Manchester’s libraries happening 4 to 8 June.
Free entry
WoWFEST, Liverpool’s longest-running writing and literary festival, is back for 2021, running throughout May with a packed programme of online events, some free.
Jenny King launches her debut collection, Moving Day, with readings and chat with fellow Carcanet Press poet, and co-director of The Poetry Business, Peter Sansom.
From £2
Liverpool-based poet Eleanor Rees will be reading at the online launch of Suzannah V Evans’s new pamphlet Brightwork, out with Guillemot Press.
Free entry
Novel Voices is a five-part online series featuring Canongate Editor-at-Large Ellah Wakatama in conversation with 10 debut authors who are helping to shape 2021’s literary landscape.
From £3
Comma Press and Manchester Metropolitan University present a two-day online Publishing Conference for aspiring and early-career publishers.
For the very first time, poet Natalie Diaz presents Radixes and Formations, a brand-new commission written especially for Manchester Literature Festival, and talks to Costa Book Award for Poetry winner Mary Jean Chan.
Free entry
Centre for New Writing lecturer Beth Underdown talks to acclaimed travel and nature writer, memoirist, broadcaster and children’s author Horatio Clare about his recovery from a catastrophic mental breakdown at the end of 2018, as told in his new book, Heavy Light.
Free entry
Join Victoria Kennefick as she talks to The Irish Times critic Martina Evans about her first full poetry collection, Eat Or We Both Starve, described as “daring” and out with Manchester’s Carcanet Press.
From £2
Sefton is a Borough of Culture for 2021 and is teaming up with The Reader to invite you to spend some literary evenings in, continuing with Grief Is The Thing With Feathers and Lanny author Max Porter on 25 March.
From £2
TS Eliot Prize-winner Roger Robinson performs poems from his brand-new Manchester Literature Festival commission around Black Lives Matter and chats to Malika Booker.
From £6
