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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Two Poems at St. Anne’s Book Market
Last year, for the third time I think, I read at Comma Press/Literature Northwest’s public celebration of the diversity of Manchester writing, the St. Anne’s square book market – and as in previous years, they kindly made a video of the many readers which has now been put online. Two of my unpublished poems “Exhibition Continues” and “I Love the Airport” are included this year. Lots of other videos from the book market are here.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- More Than Words: Book Design in Contemporary PoetrySometimes you only notice things when seeing from a different angle. Having recently moved house, I began unpacking my books, putting all the poetry books in one place for the first time. There are some striking designs in poetry history: the wonderful typographical covers of sixties and seventies Faber Thom Gunns; the stark look of New Directions beat poets […]
- Books Furnish a RoomHaving just moved house, it means I've also moved around 100 large boxes of books, CDs and records. A month in, and I'm still only some way through the unpacking. This is deliberate accumulation, years rummaging the second hand and charity shops as well as buying new stuff. I seem to have replaced the reading of books with the buying of them.That […]
- A Cultural CatastropheHistory moves like an iceberg cracks, first slowly and hardly noticeably, and then with an almighty jolt, as the fissure becomes a calamitous crack. Brexit feels ever more like that iceberg. It is not a catastrophe built in days, weeks or months, though the running commentary since the vote will no doubt be subject of quite a few history books, but in years. […]
- Slade House by David MitchellI've not touched in with David Mitchell for a while, having not read his last major novel "The Bone Clocks", from which some ideas in "Slade House" are pulled out. In essence this is a book of ghost stories. The Slade House of the title did once exist but has since been demolished and built over, but once every nine years - relating […]
- Lit in September.Hideously busy, with one thing and another, so this is an inarticulate list. Buy, go to, check out.Michael Conley read from his new fiction collection tonight. Those who have seen him read know that Michael's great skill is to take ideas not just as far as they can go, but further. His story about a group of seals is another of his great animal stories […]
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