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Review: The Manchester Anthology VI

Review: The Manchester Anthology VI

On the 6th September, the 2017/18 MA Creative Writing class launched The Manchester Anthology VI at HOME. At the event, the writers read small sections of their work, showcasing a wide range of styles, forms and subject matter. Each piece seemed to be completely unique but hearing them read aloud together, it was clear there […]
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Review: Slam of the North

Review: Slam of the North

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Four universities go head to head in a slam poetry competition tackling issues ranging from puberty to politics
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Review: Hatch Home

Review: Hatch Home

Poetry meets theatre in Hatch Home, part of HOME’s Push Festival
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Review: Hollie McNish & Jackie Hagan at the Manchester Literature Festival

Poetry double bill as rising stars Hollie McNish and Jackie Hagan perform at Manchester Literature Festival
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Art Exhibition raises hundreds of pounds for MASH

Manchester Action on Street Health curate exhibition showcasing the creative talent of the women it supports, in their first ever opening to the public
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Review: Malika Booker at the Manchester Literature Festival

Poet Malika Booker talks politics at the Manchester Literature Festival
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A very Normal interview

BAFTA award winning screenwriter, poet, comedian and co-founder of Baby Cow Productions, Henry Normal sits down to chat with Raine Beckford about the launch of his new book
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Poem: Ryan Norman

This week’s poet of the week is Ryan Norman
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Poet of the Week: Jake Piazza

Jake Piazza is Poet of the Week beginning 27/03/2017
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Poet of the Week: Seevana Raghubeer

Seevana Raghubeer is Poet of the Week beginning 20th of March 2017
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Poet of the Week: Toreh O’Garro

Toreh O’Garro is poet of the week beginning the 6th of March 2017
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Poet of the Week: Liv Barnes

Liv Barnes is poet of the week beginning the 27th February
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Poet of the Week: Kayleigh Hicks

Kayleigh Hicks is Poet of the Week beginning 20th of February
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Poet of the Week: Alle Bloom

Alle Bloom is third poet of the week with her fantastic poem Flowerbeds
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Poet of the Week: Damani Dennisur

Damani Dennisur is our poet of the week
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Manchester poets come an incredible third place in national Uni Slam contest

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
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Hardy’s Well: a surface level re-reading

Elliot Mills muses on the existance of Hardy’s Well and Lemn Sissay’s wall poem
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Why Manchester does not need your poetry ‘crown’

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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’
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Introducing the University of Manchester’s UniSlam team 2017

Jake Piazza reviews The Creative Writing Society’s Slam on the 15th of November and introduces UniSlam and Manchester’s 2017 team
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“We need to counter the rubbish that poetry is only for a chosen few”

Books editor Roma Havers interviews the poet Lemn Sissay on his new book Gold from the Stone and his role as Chancellor of the University of Manchester
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