MLF Chapter & Verse
The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
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Review: Kevin Barry and John McAuliffe
October 16, 2015
MLF Young Digital Reporter Kieran Lambe takes in an evening of high-wire poetry and prose in the company of two great writers at The University of Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre. Newly in from the October cold, audience members take their seats in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall. They place coats and scarves over seat backs, […]
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Review: David Mitchell, take two
November 26, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Jack Clare gives us his own take on our David Mitchell event at RNCM… So the lights went down and then a man came on stage. He did an introduction, but I can’t really remember what he said because I was too busy marveling at his facial hair. It was a moustache […]
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Review: Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, Central Library
November 18, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Rebecca Roe visits an unusual poetry event at Central Library as part of the Chaos to Order programme… The first thing that I noticed when I entered Manchester’s Central Library café is the noise. In one room of the building the band Everything Everything was playing from behind a glass wall, replacing […]
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Review: Tara Bergin & Caoilinn Hughes
October 21, 2014
Young Digital Reporter James Varney reviews our lunchtime event with debut Irish poets Tara Bergin and Caoilinn Hughes… At Manchester Central Library, I arrive to hear Tara Bergin and Caoilinn Hughes knowing of them only that they are Irish poets, who will be reading from their debut poetry collections, published by Carcanet. There is both […]
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Young Digital Reporter Review: Meg Rosoff
October 16, 2014
MLF Young Digital Reporter Emilia Mincheva tells us about author Meg Rosoff and the hat that changed her life… The theatre at Z-Arts was filled with anticipation last Monday afternoon as dozens of children aged 10-14 expecting to see one of the country’s most powerful and engaging Young Adult authors – Meg Rosoff. The American […]
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Young Digital Reporter Review: Sally Green and Lauren Owen
October 15, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Amy Turner reviews our Sally Green and Lauren Owen event at Central Library… On October 13th , the newly refurbished Manchester Central Library was host to the incredibly talented and up and coming supernatural fiction writers Sally Green and Lauren Owen, whilst they promoted their first pieces of young adult fiction. As […]
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Young Digital Reporter Review: In The Dark Radio
October 15, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Jack Clare filed this account of our In The Dark Radio event… I had no idea what to expect when I turned up at the Anthony Burgess for In The Dark. I had been intrigued by the description of the event, which said it aimed to lift spoken word radio ‘out of […]
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Review: Peter Blake on Dylan Thomas
October 15, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Dan J. Broadley reviews our event with artist Peter Blake discussing his new illustrated edition of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood Before I read about this event, I wasn’t sure who Peter Blake was. It rang a bell, but I didn’t know for sure. So when I found out he was the […]
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Review: Canongate Lates
October 14, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Alexandra Sutton reviews our Canongate Lates event with authors Emma Jane Unsworth, Zoe Pilger, Anneliese Mackintosh and singer-songwriter Karima Francis… Upon arrival at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, I bought my self a large glass of wine. I then nursed that glass of wine for the following hour – I was so […]
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Review: The Art of the Short Story
October 13, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Jack Clare went along to The Art of The Short Story with Sean O’Brien and Frank Cottrell Boyce and wrote a post about the event… This event was one of a serie, in promotion of a new book called Morphologies (a reference to Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale). It contains a […]