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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Poetry Reading, Manchester, Saturday 10th August 2013
I will be reading poetry at a new night at the Town Hall Tavern in Manchester on Saturday 10th August at 20:30 in the evening alongside the always excellent Tom Jenks and Sarah Crewe. Updates will be found at the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette web page. All welcome.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- 20 Years AgoThis weekend sees the students returning to Manchester and local kids giving up their summer jobs to head to other cities. It suddenly struck me that twenty years ago I was also starting at University of Manchester, for my M.A. in novel writing.In truth, I'd been prompted to memory by the documentaries about Princess Diana's death. I'd left my […]
- Day of the Locust by Nathanael West"Day of the Locust" is a novel that I've always been meaning to read, and despite its short length never quite got around to. A novel about Hollywood, by one of American fiction's sharpest literary observers, it didn't disappoint, though it wasn't the novel I'd been expecting.For in "Day of the Locust" published i […]
- 7 Towns in 7 DaysThere's an oft used cliche about southerners never venturing north of Watford, but there is, of course, the corollary to that, the northerners who've never ventured much further south than Euston. Take a look at the map of England and there are whole chunks at the edges, we're a geographically bulbous nation, and each of those bulges is a pote […]
- Last Days of the Midland by Adrian Slatcher
- Filling the Creative SpaceAs is my wont, I have been sidetracked from one of the many projects I should have been finishing, into a new little project that reached up and grabbed me last weekend. I started recording a long instrumental using just my Roland Juno 6 Synthesizer, and it ended up as a 25-minute piece reminiscent of the multiparted Tangerine Dream influenced electronica I […]
