How to read a book - Poetry

Thu Nov 27 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:15 pm UTC+00:00

The Portico Library | Manchester

Portico Library
Publisher/HostPortico Library
How to read a book - Poetry
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Join artist and writer Stephen Emmerson for an evening of curated poetry relating to his exhibition How to read a book.
About this Event

Stephen will be joined by these poets:

James Davies is a minimalist, conceptual and systems-based writer. His poetry collections include stack, Plants, Forty-Four Poems and a Volta, A Dog, Snow and it is like toys but also like video taped in a mall. He is also the author of two novels - The Wood Pigeons & When Two Are in Love or As I Came To Behind Frank's Transporter (written in collaboration with Philip Terry), as well as the short stories The Ten Superstrata of Stockport J. Middleton & Changing Piece. He edits the poetry press if p then q, between 2008-2018 was the co-organiser of the legendary The Other Room reading series in Manchester and in 2025 created The Manchester Experimental Poetry and Arts Festival.

Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. Her new poetry pamphlet Snagged on red thread is published by Monitor Books in October 2025. She is currently undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.

Tom Jenks' latest books are Chimneys, a prose poem collection on above/ground press and The Philosopher, a short prose sequence on Sublunary Editions. He edits zimzalla, a small press specialising in literary objects, and makes text art.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

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GBP 3.96

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