Join Manchester Cathedral writer-in-residence Tom Branfoot for this two-part event featuring poets Camille Ralphs, Michael Symmons Roberts and Malika Booker.
Free entry
It’s the first Poets & Players of 2024, back at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation with an afternoon of words and music.
Free entry
Marianne Brooker will be at House of Books & Friends to discuss her new book, Intervals, published by Fitzcarraldo and longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
From £5.00
Head into the ether for the launch of Egg/Shell, the much-anticipated second collection by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted Victoria Kennefick, and the Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024.
From £2.00
One of the famous Liverpool Poets of the Sixties, Roger McGough – ‘the patron saint of poetry’ according to former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy – takes to the stage.
From £20.00
It’s your chance to catch one of the most influential writers of the last century as Armistead Maupin heads out on the road for a UK tour.
From £25.00
To mark International Women’s Day, Levenshulme Old Library has pulled together a programme of activities called Weird Women, which includes Unheim-Lit, a showcase of strange and uncanny spoken word.
Free entry
Maybe he’s the new Pam Ayres, but Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate.
From £17.55
LIVEwire is back at The Edge in Chorlton with an electric line-up featuring internationally acclaimed poet and author Salena Godden.
From £13.00
Award-winning working-class writer Maria Fusco will be talking about her new book Who does not envy with us is against us with Centre for New Writing lecturer Gareth Gavin.
From £3.00
Award-winning poet and professor of poetry at Man Met, Andrew McMillan’s much-anticipated debut novel Pity is upon us, with the Manchester launch hosted by Blackwell’s Bookshop at Central Library.
From £5.00
Award-winning short story writer CD Rose will be at House of Books & Friends to launch his new short story collection, Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea.
From £5.00
