Nicole Tamer interviews the talented poet, dancer and performer, Chanje Kunda.
Olivia Stevens heads to the Martin Harris Centre to hear celebrated writers Ali Smith and Jackie Kay reflect on the legacy of Sylvia Plath
Annie Muir finds manuscripts worth pressing up against the glass for, at the William Blake exhibition
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The anniversary of Plath’s death is a chance to reflect again on the reciprocity of these two factions
We are whole countries caught in cotton
Fourteen lines rotate like a weather vane
Nothing is spoken
And dry toast, and hardbook books
Tamara Stanton heads to Instituto Cervantes in Deansgate to hear Catalan poets Josep Lluίs Aguiló and Manuel Forcano read from their newly published anthology
Emerging poet Helen Isserlis talks to Books Editor Esmé Clifford Astbury
Bad Language’s spoken word event takes an evening in the pub into a realm of uncertainty and suprise
As he nears the end of his degree, Jay Meros looks back on three years of fast food (through haiku)
Get yourself to a real live speaking words event
…that this pissy and ungourmet coffee undercompensates for a last night on the tiles and the bourbon with the boys.
Closer by the rain
This is Manchester
Each day opens slowly | but the nights are folded up | and concentrated.
