Today is the final day for submissions to be in with a chance of performing at the Bad Language literature event scheduled to take place at Manchester Museum on 22 August.
Even some of the largest of the UK’s annual music festivals have decided to sidestep this year’s sporting attractions by taking a year off, but The Imploding Inevitable Festival will embark on its third year this weekend, bringing together some of the North West’s finest musicians and poets. Director and curator Baz Wilkinson describes previous years and what to expect this year.
As Chorlton Arts Festival enters its second week there’s plenty to see, as the festival director Philip Hannaway tells Ian Pennington.
The organisers of Chorlton Arts Festival are preparing for its twelfth year in 2012. Ian Pennington looks forward to a few of the early announcements.
Amid the Gothic splendour of the reading room in the John Rylands Library, poets Chris McCully and Michael Schmidt gave free readings of work spanning the range of their careers and mapping out their lives as, to quote Schmidt, “rootless cosmopolitans”.
From the Arab uprisings to Occupy, 2011 has been a year of global unrest. Activist Tim Gee’s book Counterpower: making change happen was written to review the past history of these struggles against oppression with an eye to uncovering the secrets of their success, or lack of it.
The backbone of Owen Jones’s debut book is a well-researched, assertive advocacy of a return to a class-based politics that values working-class culture and calls for a future of a progressive labour movement. In it, he goes further than the current fad of analysing the present crisis as the result of unprincipled bankers, tracing the [...]
