Centre for Place Writing

I’m hosting this in conversation event with brilliant Mai Serhan tomorrow at 11am, registration via the link: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/i-c...

Dog Star An inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts 'I love Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry' Jeanett...

Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts on the launch of his new poetry collection, Dog Star @jonathancape.bsky.social

www.penguin.co.uk/books/474274...

Hoping to show this in Manchester later in the year

Only ONE DAY to go to enter the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism! Entries close at midnight on 28 February.

Find out all of the details: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

Dog Star An inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts 'I love Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry' Jeanett...

Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts on the launch of his new poetry collection, Dog Star @jonathancape.bsky.social

www.penguin.co.uk/books/474274...

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Copies available from your local bookshop or online, and I’d be delighted to come and tell you more - drop me a line at my university email.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

New publication from @anthonyburgess.bsky.social this week!
#BookSky

Tonight with @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery - Poetry readings.

#PoetrySky

Dressing through Pandemics: a special issue launch Join us for a virtual celebration of fashion resilience during tough times at the 'Dressing through Pandemics' launch.

Morolake Dairo & Sharon Nunoo feature in Dressing Through Pandemics: a special issue launch for Intellect @intellectbooks.bsky.social - how clothing & dress became central technologies of care, identity, politics & resilience during a period of global disruption.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-t...

Dressing through Pandemics: a special issue launch Join us for a virtual celebration of fashion resilience during tough times at the 'Dressing through Pandemics' launch.

Morolake Dairo & Sharon Nunoo feature in Dressing Through Pandemics: a special issue launch for Intellect @intellectbooks.bsky.social - how clothing & dress became central technologies of care, identity, politics & resilience during a period of global disruption.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-t...

The spine of Moving Mountains - navy blue with rainbow writing between two other nature books.

First time I've seen the paperback of #MovingMountains in the wild! 😁 @louisekenward.bsky.social

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...

An advert for Tremor of Intent: 'Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent, a novel of: Espionage! Treachery! Gluttony? Out now in a new edition.'

An advert showing the covers of One Hand Clapping and Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess. 'Reissued by Galileo 25 February 2026'

OUT TODAY! A brand new edition of TREMOR OF INTENT, Anthony Burgess’s spy caper

Secret agent Denis Hillier boards a ship bound for Crimea. He must return a defector to England, but he’s past it and the ship may be filled with enemy agents

Buy now (affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...

Advert for One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess made to look like an old magazine: 'Inside the glamorous world of T.V., Life with the international jet-set, Married women share their secrets. New edition out now.'

Advert for Tremor of Intent and One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess 'Reissued by Galileo, 25 February 2026'

OUT TODAY! A brand new edition of ONE HAND CLAPPING, Anthony Burgess’s satire on consumerism.

Northern housewife Janet tells of her husband’s success on a TV quiz show and the lavish lifestyle that follows. But something's not right...

Buy now (affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...

above/ground book launch featuring David Gaffney, Lydia Unsworth, Tom Jenks above/ground press present live poetry at Saul Hay Gallery with David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, and Lydia Unsworth - plus art and free wine!

Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...

some author activity: Coulton, Aube, Kaplan, mclennan, Hausner + Unsworth, Valerie Coulton has a new poem at the arts fuse ; Gwen Aube is announced as one of the 2026 Writers-in-Residence at the Al Purdy A-Frame ; b...

some above/ground press author activity: Valerie Coulton, Gwen Aube, Genevieve Kaplan, rob mclennan, Beatriz Hausner + Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...

Lydia Unsworth : 1B I’ve been feeling a little untethered I bought a new pan so I can touch it the non-stick so slippery the way nothing sticks to m...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social : 1B
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/lydi...

Goyle, Chert, Mire A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery Each of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hil...

In April, Jean Sprackland's new collection of poetry - Goyle, Chert, Mire - will be published by Jonathan Cape Books.

A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery

www.penguin.co.uk/books/471971...

Goyle, Chert, Mire A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery Each of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hil...

In April, Jean Sprackland's new collection of poetry - Goyle, Chert, Mire - will be published by Jonathan Cape Books.

A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery

www.penguin.co.uk/books/471971...

Open Meetings - MBBCS Meetings are held at the Whitefield Garrick Theatre. Click for directionsMeetings start at 7:30pmMembers and non-members are welcome.At each meeting there is an update about the MBBC.The sales stand i...

Coming up in March from the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Society.

“Uncomfortable Histories in the Canal Space”

Dr Jodie Matthews @drjodiematthews.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University

At the Whitefield Garrick Theatre, 7:30pm
mbbcs.org.uk/open-talks/

BBC Radio 4 - Life Without, Life Without Rats Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?

Delighted to be chatting rats on new @alandaviescomic.bsky.social Radio 4 series ‘A Life Without…’ listen here 👇https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rf05 @chiffchat.bsky.social

Stowaway: A Guest Post by Joe Shute - B&N Reads Separating truth from fiction, Joe Shute dives into the mysteries of one of the world’s most misunderstood animals. Fascinating and enlightening, this book explores rats and the surprising ways our li...

A guest post I've written for @barnesandnoble.com on the inspiration behind my book Stowaway www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/joe-shu... @chiffchat.bsky.social

Banned Books List 2026 What books are banned in 2026? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

Should Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange be top of this banned books list? And should it be five positions above a Wizard of Oz prequel? pen.org/banned-books...

Unclassified - Helen Mort's Listening Chair - BBC Sounds Elizabeth Alker invites poet Helen Mort to pick a track that transports her

New from @helenmort.bsky.social - Elizabeth Alker welcomes Helen to the Unclassified Listening Chair to share a track that transports her elsewhere. A keen walker and climber, Helen’s writing displays a deep engagement with the rhythms of the body and the natural world.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Writer Anjum Malik joins Cartwheel Arts as our first-ever patron.  - Cartwheel Arts Anjum Malik is playwright and scriptwriter who has worked on programmes such as Coronation Street and is a published poet.  As a poet, she was one of the first multi-lingual City Poets for Manchester ...

Anjum Malik has been announced as the first patron for Greater Manchester's Cartwheel Arts.
Here you can read Anjum's interview on her life and work - @anjummalik.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
www.cartwheelarts.org.uk/writer-anjum...

#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9263...

Open Meetings - MBBCS Meetings are held at the Whitefield Garrick Theatre. Click for directionsMeetings start at 7:30pmMembers and non-members are welcome.At each meeting there is an update about the MBBC.The sales stand i...

Coming up in March from the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Society.

“Uncomfortable Histories in the Canal Space”

Dr Jodie Matthews @drjodiematthews.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University

At the Whitefield Garrick Theatre, 7:30pm
mbbcs.org.uk/open-talks/

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Nice to read for once that a supposed higher education problem isn't actually the fault of universities

TONIGHT at Manchester Poetry Library!

Writer Anjum Malik joins Cartwheel Arts as our first-ever patron.  - Cartwheel Arts Anjum Malik is playwright and scriptwriter who has worked on programmes such as Coronation Street and is a published poet.  As a poet, she was one of the first multi-lingual City Poets for Manchester ...

Anjum Malik has been announced as the first patron for Greater Manchester's Cartwheel Arts.
Here you can read Anjum's interview on her life and work - @anjummalik.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
www.cartwheelarts.org.uk/writer-anjum...