poetry
22nd Apr
| By Tyrese King
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Award winning writer Roger Robinson and Caleb Femi explore racism and pandemic solitude in their new poems for this year’s Manchester Literature...
19th Mar
| By Alice Stevens
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As National Social Prescribing day was celebrated virtually for the first time due to lockdown restrictions, a Manchester-based wellbeing service is...
20th Nov
| By Emily Mcintyre
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’We’re open to everyone, and that’s the really important thing I want to get across.’’
That’s the message from Becky Swain, director of the new...
12th Oct
| By Connie Enzler
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College students painted the pandemic in a writing initiative led by the Manchester Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.
The...
8th Oct
| By Tyrese King
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Manchester Children’s Book Festival and Poetry Library hosted prize-winning poet and illustrator, Mandy Coe, for launch of her latest book the to...
13th Dec
| By Chloe Illingworth
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Manchester Metropolitan University has been awarded a Queens Award for its Mother Tongue, Other Tongue poetry project.
The project, which...
4th Dec
| By Aaron Sabate
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As Jean Sprackland approached me with her poetry style smile I could see already that the interview ahead was going to be a good one, it...
29th Nov
| By Aaron Sabate
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Poetry is everywhere around us; from the music we listen to, the fine books we read, advertisements, films and of course poetry books themselves. We...
21st Oct
| By Aaron Sabate
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First things first, Community United Music is a newly founded community for musicians, writers and poets alike to 'CUM together' (as the organiser...
21st Feb
| By Miles Casey
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Manchester Central Library is to host an open mic session for emerging Mancunian rappers, musicians, poets and MCs.
As well as giving creative minds...