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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Reading the Other – Chorlton Arts Festival
Next Monday, 23rd May, come along to Proof bar in Chorlton for READING THE OTHER as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival.
Reading The Other: a literary reading with a twist.
We have brought together ten very different writers of poetry and prose, paired them up at random and asked them to swap their setlists for the evening. What happens when you cross a Confessional poet with an Imagist? A surrealist with a kitchen-sink dramatist? An exuberant performance poet with an introverted memoirist? How much do writers squirm when forced to sit in the audience and listen to their own words read out in someone else’s voice? Will it descend into fisticuffs at the first sign of a misplaced trochee?
Come and find out.
I’ll be reading alongside a range of poets and prose writers – with the nice twist that I’ll be in the audience to hear my own poems read out, whilst I read someone else’s work.
Proof bar is on Manchester Road just opposite the Library – it should be a great evening.
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 […]
