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Poetry Discussion at Manchester Buddhist Centre: 10 February, 10.30-12.30

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For those of you thinking of attending our next event with Vahni Capildeo, Rebecca Perry, John Challis and Corey Mwamba, you may be interested in Edmund Prestwich’s Poetry Discussion at the Buddhist Centre which will focus on Rebecca Perry. Please … Continue reading

Workshop with Hannah Silva: 24 March 2018

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The workshop is on Saturday 24 March at 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to reserve a place and for details of how to pay. The Workshop: Sound Like Yourself How do … Continue reading

Anthony Rudolf and Hannah Silva, with music from the Royal Northern College of Music

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Free reading at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Saturday 24 March at 2.30-4.00. Anthony Rudolf Anthony Rudolf was born in 1942 in London , where he still lives. He studied modern languages and social anthropology at Cambridge . He has … Continue reading

Imtiaz Dharker, Karen McCarthy Woolf: 21 April 2018

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Free reading at the Whitworth Art Gallery 21 April 2018, 2.30-4.00. All welcome. Imtiaz Dharker Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker. Awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, she has received the Cholmondley Award and … Continue reading

Workshop with Karen McCarthy Woolf: 21 April 2018

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Our next workshop is with Karen McCarthy Woolf on the 21 April 2018, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery. The fee is £20. To reserve a place please email davidborrott@btinternet.com Karen McCarthy Woolf Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London … Continue reading

Competition event with Pascale Petit, music from Arian Sadr: 12 May 2018

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Please come along to our annual competition event where judge Pascale Petit will announce the winners who will read their winning poems. Pascale will also do a reading of her own work. The venue is the Whitworth Art Gallery, time … Continue reading

The Winners of the 2018 Poets & Players Competition

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The winners of the 2018 Poets & Players Competition judged by Pascale Petit The Judge’s report on the competition and the winning poems: When Poets & Players asked me to judge their competition I happily agreed. It’s an organisation I … Continue reading

Workshop with John Glenday: Saturday 15 September 2018

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Our next event is a workshop with John Glenday on the morning of Saturday 15 September 2018, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery. The fee for the workshop is £20. Please email davidborrot@btinternet.com to reserve a place. John Glenday John … Continue reading

John Glenday, Ben Wilkinson, Keshia Starrett with music from Chris Davies and Andrew Mucha: 15 September 2018

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Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester all welcome, Saturday 15 September, 2.30-4.00. John Glenday John Glenday is the author of four poetry collections. The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and Undark, … Continue reading

Sean O’Brien and Deryn Rees-Jones with music from the Basilisk Duo: 6 October 2018

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This is our annual collaboration with Manchester Literature Festival. Poets Sean O’Brien and Deryn Rees-Jones and RNCM’s The Basilisk Duo, saxophonists Freya Chambers and Simeon Evans will perform at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Saturday 6 October, 2.30-4.00. The event … Continue reading

Liz Berry, with commissions from Sophie Herxheimer, Kapka Kassobova & Tariq Latif; music from Archipelago: 17 November 2018

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Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Liz Berry Liz Berry’s first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’ (Guardian) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset … Continue reading

Migrations Commission: new work from Sophie Herxheimer, Kapka Kassabova & Tariq Latif

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Sophie Herxheimer For Gulwali Passarlay Small Gulwali hadn’t seen the sea, though gulls hijacked his name. He’d learned to shepherd in the snows of home, bossing his aunties: cover your heads for shame! Set out a fledgeling fundamentalist, till harsh … Continue reading

Workshop with Colette Bryce: 19 January 2019

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Workshop with Colette Bryce on Saturday 19 January 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20, please email davidborrott@btinternet.com for details of how to pay. Participants will be invited to submit a poem to Colette before … Continue reading

Colette Bryce, Kit Fan and Martin Kratz, with music from the Kell Wind Trio: 19 January 2019

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Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Colette Bryce Colette Bryce is the author of four collections with Picador. Her latest, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during … Continue reading

Lavinia Greenlaw and Daljit Nagra with music from Blind Monk: 23 February 2019

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Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London, where she has lived for most of her life. Her teenage years were spent in a village in Essex. She has published five … Continue reading

Competition 2019

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We are pleased to announce the 7th poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events. OUR JUDGE FOR 2019 WILL BE KEI MILLER Kei Miller is a poet, novelist, essayist, short … Continue reading

Workshop with Daljit Nagra: 23 February 2019

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Workshop with Daljit Nagra on Saturday 23 February 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or … Continue reading

Workshop with Mark Pajak: 23 March 2019

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Workshop with Mark Pajak on Saturday 23 March 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or … Continue reading

Jacob Polley, Phoebe Power & Amy McCauley with music from Rachael Gladwin: 23 March 2019

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Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Jacob Polley Jacob Polley was born and grew up in Cumbria. He has published four books of poems with Picador, winning the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his fourth, … Continue reading

Workshop with John McAuliffe: 27 April 2019

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Workshop with John McAuliife on Saturday 27 April 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20. Participants are invited to bring along a poem to share with John and the group for feedback (please bring 15 … Continue reading
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