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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
- 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 […]
- The Viaduct by David WheldonThere was a brief moment in the early 1980s where strange, short minimal novels, often set in abstract or non-realistic worlds, were being published, partly as the influence of Ballard and Carter seeped into the works of the next generation of writers, and partly, I think, through a sense of longing for a more European cultural scene. Britain, with its rheto […]
- Farewell, my Lovely by Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler's novel "Farewell, my Lovely" is a 1940s noir classic, and rightly so; but its also, like a number of other older books I've read recently - "The Man in the High Castle", "The Day of the Locust" - a very strange novel. I'm not sure whether it is it's strangeness or its familiarity - those noi […]
- Madonna at 60Madonna has tnrned 60, and if you should never mention a lady's age, I guess this has been hailed as a milestone as much because with her reaching (what once was) pensionable age, so much of our own youth goes with her; but also because of all the massive superstars, few embody youth like Madonna. Where did the years go? And more importantly, what' […]
- 10 Good Things In the quest for recognition as a writer it can sometimes seem that life is full of disappointment and rejection. (Don't worry, life IS full of disappointment of rejection...just not all the time!) So I was thinking of some of the tangibly good things that have happened to me as a writer. Here are a few from over the years.1. First PublicationI didn […]
