December Read

November - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

October - Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones

September Read - Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay

August Special

We are honoured to have this poet living in our street!
Biographical note:  Antony Rowland was born in Bradford in 1970. Since studying at Hull and Leeds he has taught literature and creative writing at The University of Salford. He has published poems in various journals and magazines, including Critical Quarterly, Stand and P.N. Review. A selection of his work appeared in New Poetries III (Carcanet, 2002). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2000, and a Learning Northwest Award in 2001.


Short description/annotation:  This collection pushes the monologue form further than it’s ever been before, featuring the history of the beard recounted to a headless cavalier, and an academic obsessed with the power of nineteenth-century barnets. The collection also contains a gastronomic edge, with a eulogy to the pie, a diatribe against cucumbers, and an elegy for Pontefract’s pomfret cakes.

July Read

Profile

Joe Pemberton was born in Moss Side, Manchester in 1960. His parents emigrated from the West Indies to England in the late fifties, before moving to Ashton-under-Lyne in 1970. He has worked as an electrical engineer and a college lecturer. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester Creative Writing Course. He has had two novels published, Forever and Ever Amen and A Long Time Dead and has just completed a third novel entitled I Wander As I Wander and is seeking a publisher. He has written stage adaptations for both novels and has had Forever and Ever Amen workshopped at the Library Theatre, Manchester. He was also one of the judges for the 2004 Crocus Novel Competition. He has given many readings, e.g. Waterstones; several North-West libraries including Manchester Central library, Oldham, Powerhouse, Hulme, etc., as well as interviews on national and local radio.

June Book

David Michell's Ghostwritten

May Read for Chorlton Arts Festival

This will be an open session as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival. We are hosting it at the Mai Wah restaurant in the name of 'The Art Of Conversation'.

So not so much a visual art or muscial event but more of a conversation experience. One side of the menu will be dishes the other topics of conversation drawn from David Nicholls book 'One Day'. The idea is that we move tables between courses and enjoy conversing with people we might not have connect with before.

The restuarant are giving us a special price of £10 per person. Book directly with the Mai Wah.

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