MLF Chapter & Verse
The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
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Review: Faber New Poets
October 16, 2014
MLF Blogger Charlotte Rowland braved the Manchester rain to see four of the Faber New Poets read at Central Library… Four poets, four colour-coded books, and only one rainy October night to learn what they all have in common. Or don’t. That’s right. Faber New Poets have come around, again, for the third time, following […]
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Review: Cynan Jones and Evie Wyld
October 15, 2014
Festival Blogger Fran Slater attended our Cynan Jones and Evie Wyld event and wrote this review… With no disrespect to Cynan Jones, I was attracted to this event because of Evie Wyld. Ever since I read her debut novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice I have been recommending her writing to anybody who […]
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Review: Bad Language with Matt Haig and The Writing Squad
October 15, 2014
Hard though it is to believe, tonight is the first time that the binary stars of Manchester’s bookish firmament – Bad Language and the Literature Festival – have come into alignment. Even though the former has been emitting pulsar-like bursts of spoken word and poetry for nigh on five years, it is a Festival debutante. […]
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Review: Simon Armitage
October 15, 2014
Festival blogger Sarah-Clare Conlon headed to Manchester Cathedral for the launch of Simon Armitage’s selected works, and an engaging conversation between the poet and journalist Rachel Cooke… “I’m not very good at making things up. I don’t think I have much of an imagination.” Quite a statement from a man who, 20 years ago, jacked […]
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Review: Tales from the Towpath workshop
October 15, 2014
Writer Sarah Jasmon went along to the first Tales from The Towpath workshop and sent in this review… Outside of the YHA at Castlefields, we stand in a circle, our eyes closed, and imagine being a particle of water, deep underground. So begins the first of the Tales from the Towpath workshops. Envisioned as ‘an […]
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Review: Sarah Waters
October 15, 2014
Festival blogger Desmond Bullen enjoys an afternoon in the company of Sarah Waters… Most obviously in the distillation of the Victorian Gothic with which she made her name, Sarah Waters’ stories are suffused with anticipation; the vertigo of dread and hope before a kiss or betrayal makes the world anew. The anticipation in the Royal […]
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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 […]