Alle Bloom is third poet of the week with her fantastic poem Flowerbeds

Brocha Goode recommends five graphic novels and comic books for those who don’t like superheroes

Damani Dennisur is our poet of the week

Kayleigh Hicks reviews the events of Uni-Slam 2017 and the University of Manchester’s team, where Manchester poets performed a piece about art dying and were ironically penalised for going over the time limit

Elliot Mills muses on the existance of Hardy’s Well and Lemn Sissay’s wall poem

Ellie Welch reviews this recent book from a local Manchester writer

Elizabeth Gibson is the first of weekly published poets in The Mancunion

Roma Havers joins forces with Manchester’s poetry community in response to the Manchester Evening News article ‘Why Manchester should be crowned the capital of poetry’

Elliot Mills argues the case for a place in the literary heritage of Manchester for Anthony Burgess, a man often left out of the narrative

Roma Havers reflects on a year of great books and the top five that stood out

Jake Piazza reviews The Creative Writing Society’s Slam on the 15th of November and introduces UniSlam and Manchester’s 2017 team

Gurnaik Johal reviews November’s Louder Than Words Festival and gives insight into some of the most successful events

Danielle Kosky introduces The Society of Young Publishers and explains how you can get involved in their events

James Blower introduces the BBC’s new scheme #lovetoread and encourages students to take up the challenge

Roma Havers previews Louder Than Words Festival and its events this weekend

Beth Woods reviews the Manchester Literary Festival talk with Eimear McBride concerning her new book The Lesser Bohemians

Elizabeth Gibson gives us an insight into how to get your work accepted into literary journals and introduces her new magazine Foxglove Journal

Hope Abbott reviews the new English translation of Aimée de Jongh’s graphic novel: The Return of the Honey Buzzard

Danielle Kosky reviews The Book of Dhaka, a new collection of short stories from Comma Press

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón “It is one of those books that I had to stop reading because I was surprised by it, I physically had to put the book aside and just think and let it sink in. I also gasped loudly on an aeroplane while I was reading this, […]