Author Archives: Janet Rogerson

Workshop with Daljit Nagra on Saturday 23 February 2019, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or … Continue reading →

OUR 2019 COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED.  WINNERS WILL BE INFORMED BY 2 MAY 2019.         We are pleased to announce the 7th poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester’s … Continue reading →

Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London, where she has lived for most of her life. Her teenage years were spent in a village in Essex. She has published five … Continue reading →

Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Colette Bryce Colette Bryce is the author of four collections with Picador. Her latest, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during … Continue reading →

Sophie Herxheimer For Gulwali Passarlay Small Gulwali hadn’t seen the sea, though gulls hijacked his name. He’d learned to shepherd in the snows of home, bossing his aunties: cover your heads for shame! Set out a fledgeling fundamentalist, till harsh … Continue reading →

Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery. All welcome. Liz Berry Liz Berry’s first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’ (Guardian) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset … Continue reading →

This is our annual collaboration with Manchester Literature Festival. Poets Sean O’Brien and Deryn Rees-Jones and RNCM’s The Basilisk Duo, saxophonists Freya Chambers and Simeon Evans will perform at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Saturday 6 October, 2.30-4.00. The event … Continue reading →

Our next event is a workshop with John Glenday on the morning of Saturday 15 September 2018, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery. The fee for the workshop is £20. Please email davidborrot@btinternet.com to reserve a place. John Glenday John … Continue reading →