Poets & Players presents poets Katharine Towers, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and Victoria Gatehouse with music from Chris Davies. Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 29 March 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers […]
Poets & Players presents Imtiaz Dharker, Ella Frears, Martin Zarrop with music from Natalie Sharp Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 29 March 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need regarding visiting the IABF on their website […]
Join DJ, artist, author Justin Robertson in conversation with Dave Haslam at this event to celebrate the publication of Justin’s new novel ‘The Trial of Jonah’ – the confessions of a time-travelling cultural vampire wherein the alternative history of late 20th-century counter-culture is revealed. Jonah’s travels take him from Roman Britain to the birth of […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 1 March 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. Appearing this month: Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Copley, Rachel Davies & Hilary Robinson with music from Chuva. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers […]
Join Manchester University Press for a very special event celebrating the launch of a new book, Walking in the dark: James Baldwin, my father, and me, and the James Baldwin centenary. Academic and author Douglas Field will be in conversation with British-Nigerian historian and writer David Olusoga. Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing […]
‘Beautiful, powerful and haunting, this book defies erasure with imagination and integrity.’ Afua Hirsch From Ghana to Greenland, Leeds to Los Angeles, the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five remarkable Black men: Ira Aldridge, Matthew Henson, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and Justin Fashanu. His inventive and engaging book The […]
Poets & Players with Sinéad Morrissey, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight & Tim Tim Cheng Please join us on Saturday 26 October 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and […]
Poets & Players with Sarah Howe, Lorcán Black, Tom Branfoot Please join us on Saturday 28 September 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need regarding visiting the IABF on their website here. The event is free and everyone […]
Katherine Bucknell joins us at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester to talk about her illuminating new biography of Christopher Isherwood, whose writings about Berlin in the 1930s made him famous. Born in Stockport in 1904, and best known for the Berlin novels which inspired the musical Cabaret, Isherwood was one of the most prominent writers […]
The Archive of Dread: Documented tales of monsters, possession and the living dead. In late 2019 Robert Lloyd Parry inherited the contents of a flat belonging to a dead man that he’d never met. The property was full boxes, which were themselves stuffed with chilling documents: letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, postcards… Filed in disarray, […]