@centreplacewriting
Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues. Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Dr Rachel Lichtenstein https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
The new spring/summer program at Manchester Poetry Library launches with Michael Symmons Roberts’ new poetry collection Dog Star on 18th March.
#BookSky #PoetrySky
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Any Manchester-based followers please come along to the below. All welcome!
Monday at Manchester Poetry Library, hosted by @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social
La belle-mère / The Stepmother: A bilingual poetry reading
Mon 09 Mar 2026
18:30-20:00
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
'Conversations with the Irk: a sound and creative writing workshop.
A new event from @joeshute.bsky.social next week at Manchester's Central Library. Writing/sound workshop on Tuesday 10th March, 1pm-2.30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversati...
Call for papers for the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS: Share your research at the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026. CPMH includes @ljmuofficial.bsky.social , @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool's Maritime Museum. Submit abstract to n.j.white@ljmu.ac.uk by 15 May.
Tickets are up for SYMPOESIA, Poets Jay Bernard, Salena Godden, Anthony Anaxagorou and Joelle Taylor are joined by the contemporary chamber orchestra in a brand-new commission - an evening of urgent storytelling and virtuosic performance, April 30, QEH
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/sym...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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It’s a busy March at the Burgess Foundation. This week’s newsletter gives a rundown of all the events. Can’t get to Manchester? Find out how you can engage with the Burgess Foundation online.
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So, one question I often get is why I decided to write a book about guns, and the answer goes back more than two decades to the beginning of this millennium when I was doing my MA.
The new spring/summer program at Manchester Poetry Library launches with Michael Symmons Roberts’ new poetry collection Dog Star on 18th March.
#BookSky #PoetrySky
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
I’m hosting this in conversation event with brilliant Mai Serhan tomorrow at 11am, registration via the link: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/i-c...
Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts on the launch of his new poetry collection, Dog Star @jonathancape.bsky.social
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474274...
Hoping to show this in Manchester later in the year
Only ONE DAY to go to enter the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism! Entries close at midnight on 28 February.
Find out all of the details: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...
Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts on the launch of his new poetry collection, Dog Star @jonathancape.bsky.social
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474274...
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Copies available from your local bookshop or online, and I’d be delighted to come and tell you more - drop me a line at my university email.
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
New publication from @anthonyburgess.bsky.social this week!
#BookSky
Tonight with @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery - Poetry readings.
#PoetrySky
Morolake Dairo & Sharon Nunoo feature in Dressing Through Pandemics: a special issue launch for Intellect @intellectbooks.bsky.social - how clothing & dress became central technologies of care, identity, politics & resilience during a period of global disruption.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-t...
Morolake Dairo & Sharon Nunoo feature in Dressing Through Pandemics: a special issue launch for Intellect @intellectbooks.bsky.social - how clothing & dress became central technologies of care, identity, politics & resilience during a period of global disruption.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-t...
The spine of Moving Mountains - navy blue with rainbow writing between two other nature books.
First time I've seen the paperback of #MovingMountains in the wild! 😁 @louisekenward.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...
An advert for Tremor of Intent: 'Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent, a novel of: Espionage! Treachery! Gluttony? Out now in a new edition.'
An advert showing the covers of One Hand Clapping and Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess. 'Reissued by Galileo 25 February 2026'
OUT TODAY! A brand new edition of TREMOR OF INTENT, Anthony Burgess’s spy caper
Secret agent Denis Hillier boards a ship bound for Crimea. He must return a defector to England, but he’s past it and the ship may be filled with enemy agents
Buy now (affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...
Advert for One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess made to look like an old magazine: 'Inside the glamorous world of T.V., Life with the international jet-set, Married women share their secrets. New edition out now.'
Advert for Tremor of Intent and One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess 'Reissued by Galileo, 25 February 2026'
OUT TODAY! A brand new edition of ONE HAND CLAPPING, Anthony Burgess’s satire on consumerism.
Northern housewife Janet tells of her husband’s success on a TV quiz show and the lavish lifestyle that follows. But something's not right...
Buy now (affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...
Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...
some above/ground press author activity: Valerie Coulton, Gwen Aube, Genevieve Kaplan, rob mclennan, Beatriz Hausner + Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social : 1B
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/lydi...
In April, Jean Sprackland's new collection of poetry - Goyle, Chert, Mire - will be published by Jonathan Cape Books.
A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471971...
In April, Jean Sprackland's new collection of poetry - Goyle, Chert, Mire - will be published by Jonathan Cape Books.
A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471971...
Coming up in March from the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Society.
“Uncomfortable Histories in the Canal Space”
Dr Jodie Matthews @drjodiematthews.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University
At the Whitefield Garrick Theatre, 7:30pm
mbbcs.org.uk/open-talks/