We utilize essential cookies to ensure our website operates effectively and remains secure. Additionally, we'd like to request your permission to use optional cookies. These are intended to enhance your browsing experience by offering personalized content, displaying advertisements that are relevant to you, and helping us to further refine our website.
Choose "Accept all cookies" to agree to the use of both essential and optional cookies. Alternatively, select "Let me see" to customize your preferences.
Privacy Preference Centre
Our website utilizes cookies to enhance your browsing experience and to present you with content tailored to your preferences on this device and browser. Below, you will find detailed information about the function of cookies, enabling you to make informed choices about which cookies you wish to accept. Please note that disabling certain cookies might impact your user experience on our site. It's important to remember that cookie preferences need to be set individually for each device and browser you use. Clearing your browser's cache may also remove your cookie settings. You have the freedom to modify your cookie preferences at any point in the future.
For a comprehensive understanding of our use of cookies, please refer to our complete cookies policy.
These cookies are needed for the website to work and for us to fulfil our contractual obligations. This means they can't be switched off. They enable essential functionality such as security, accessibility and live chat support. They also help us to detect and prevent fraud. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but it means some parts of the site won't work.
Performance and Analytics
These cookies allow us to measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know how popular pages are, and to see how visitors move around the site. If you don't allow these cookies, we won't know when you've visited our site, and we won't be able to monitor its performance.
Functional
These cookies enable us to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we've added to our pages. If you don't allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not work properly.
Advertising
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to show you personalised adverts. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They don't store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you don't allow these cookies, the adverts you see will be less relevant.
Presented by Flapjack Press & Manchester Libraries
A free event every month at Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD Ground Floor Performance Space
Next event:
‘Now We Are Nine’ birthday celebration Tuesday 29th July, 6.00pm - 7.45pm (doors open 5.40pm)
with special guest Angela Smith
Our special guest Angela Smith is Welsh by birth but has lived in Hulme long enough to be a Mancunian by adoption, with her poetry influenced by both the Valleys and the city. She began writing at the age of 7, but stopped for decades when a burglar stole her notebooks and her Muse. Inspired to begin writing again by online friends and the welcoming Manchester poetry scene, she has poems in numerous anthologies and the published collection This Is the Me I Would Be If I Dared. Angela loves to play with form and style, as can be seen in her blog.
Tues 26th August with special guest GoodnightTheSkye (book your open mic slot from noon on Tues 12th August) Tues 30th September with special guest Lisa Moore (book your open mic slot from noon on Tues 16th September) Tues 28th October with special guest Zena Barrie (book your open mic slot from noon on Tues 14th October) Tues 25th November with special guest Kieren King (book your open mic slot from noon on Tues 11th November) [No event in December]
