Sarah-Clare Conlon

Manchester Poetry Library and the Poetry Translation Centre are delighted to celebrate the publication of Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! in English, with a special reading from poet Ribka Sibhatu and a wider discussion about Italian and Eritrean poetry with translator André Naffis-Sahely.

Poet Sasha Dugdale heads online to launch her new Carcanet collection, Deformations, which she will discuss with fellow poet and critic Kathryn Maris.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival goes online from 9 to 18 July, with various events including discussion Writing The Palestinian City, in association with Comma Press, and an evening featuring spoken word artist and performer, and LAAF’s artist-in-residence for 2020, Lisa Luxx.

In the latest online book launch from Carcanet Press, join Rebecca Watts as she celebrates the launch of her new poetry collection, Red Gloves, reading from the book and chatting about it to Paul Stephenson, co-curator of Poetry in Aldeburgh.

Theophilus Kwek launches new poetry collection, Moving House, with readings from the new Carcanet tome and a suitably socially distanced chat with poet and critic Mary Jean Chan.

Manchester Libraries invites younger readers to a feast of Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge daily activity stretching over nine weeks – from Draw Alongs with Nick Sharratt, poetry with Dommy B and sessions with a host of storytellers, to supercool crafts with Archives+ and Manchester artists.

Aged 16 to 25? Join the DecoloniseUoM and Manchester Museum’s Radical Reading Group on 26 June, when the text up for discussion is the 1987 novel Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Participants are invited to a choice of two creative writing workshops to explore the sixth global mass extinction alongside the Voicing Silence project with artist Laurence Payot, Manchester Museum and University of Leeds.

In association with Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries, Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word heads online fortnightly, with a sign-up-in-advance open mic and a guest poet at each event.

This year’s York Festival Of Ideas heads online, with some live literature events featuring the poets Vahni Capildeo and Mary Jean Chan plus interactive creative writing workshops well worth checking out.

Following a quick spin in the great outdoors while the weather held, Everyman Theatre Liverpool’s monthly open mic poetry and spoken word event has gone digital again, with Dean Atta hitting up the headline spot to celebrate National Poetry Day on 1 October.

Join in with these free fortnightly live-streamed masterclasses, complete with writing prompts, given by a contemporary short story writer on the work of a classic counterpart: Sean O’Brien on Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Evers on Sherwood Anderson, and Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Anton Chekhov.