This free event is part of the Carcanet 50th anniversary celebrations. It is at the Whitworth Art Gallery at 2.30-4.00. Everyone welcome

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati has published eight collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, and Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. A new collection of sonnets, Afterwardness, is due in October 2019. She is a founder of the Poetry School and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Joe Dunthorne

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Joe Dunthorne was born and grew up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His latest is The Adulterants. A collection of his poems, O Positive, was published earlier this year by Faber & Faber.

Lauren Garland

Lauren Garland is a student on the MA programme in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her recent work explores friendship and visual art. Lauren’s poetry has been published in magazines including Butcher’s Dog and Poetry Salzburg Review. She was commended in the 2018 McLellan Poetry Prize and her collaboration with composer Aaron Breeze won the 2019 Rosamond Prize. Lauren is on Twitter as @GarlandLauren

Ask My Bull

Ask My Bull are a musical chimera that combines the visceral energy of punk, the danceability of drum’n’bass and the intriguing nuance of jazz: AskMy Bull is delightfully hyperactive and cinematically epic …

Beautiful chaos or a bittersweet play-fight? Ask My Bull birthed CREATURE, their first full-length album. It was released on the world in June 2019 and barely contains the energy of the band’s journey between man and beast.

Always primed for festival season, Ask My Bull’s has rocked many of the best, including Shambala, Boomtown, Beat-herder, Kendal Calling, Eden, Kelburn Garden Party, Nozstock and One Tribe/Audio Farm.

They provided the soundtrack for Vewn’s viral video ‘Cat City’, which currently has almost 2 million views on YouTube. The collaboration later aired on Adult Swim, with the band’s track ‘Army of Swans’ providing the soundtrack to Vewn’s short ‘Mask Dog’. The band even created a haunting live score for the play Oct.O.Pus … who knows what they will be getting up to next …

The band has recently completed their line up, adding a second sax player and are excited to write new material and gig in support of their album.