Literature Live: Sophie Collins and Carol Mavor at Martin Harris Centre

Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor
Poet Sophie Collins
Poet Sophie Collins.

Literature Live: Sophie Collins and Carol Mavor at Martin Harris Centre for Music & Drama, Manchester 12 February 2018 Tickets from £5.00

In an event hosted by poet Vona Groarke of the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester and presented in partnership with The Real Story, hear from Sophie Collins and Carol Mavor.

Poet, editor and translator, and Assistant Professor of Poetry at Durham University, Sophie’s first poetry collection, Who Is Mary Sue?, is published by Faber & Faber this February 2018. She is joined by Carol Mavor, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester and author of Aurelia: Art and Literature through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale. Be prepared for a magical evening!

Tickets are £7 full price; £5 concessions.

 

Literature Live: Sophie Collins and Carol Mavor at Martin Harris Centre for Music & Drama, Manchester 12 February 2018 Tickets from £5.00

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