The new technologies and electronic music production festival FutureEverything is back for another year with as enticing a line-up as ever. Ian Pennington leafs through the programme to pick out some musical highlights.
Manchester is putting on Close Knit, a year-long festival dedicated to the art of knitting. Sarah Adie attended the latest of their events to find out more about the ongoing theme inspired by the recent discovery of boxes full of knitting patterns in a cupboard at the Whitworth Art Gallery, some dating back at least 100 years.
The second issue of poetry magazine Kaffeeklatsch was released last month. Containing a mix of poetry, criticism and photography, we asked creative writing MA student Alexa Turnpenny to review it.