Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 6:30 pm – Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 8:30 pm

Writers at Manchester Met: Wild Bodies - Fiona Benson and Seán Hewitt

Date: Thursday 14th March 2019

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Location: LB02, Number 70 Oxford St, Manchester Metropolitan University

Tickets: Free – Available on Eventbrite: https://writersatmanmetwildbodies.eventbrite.com  

Join two of our most urgent and important contemporary poets as they launch new work.
Fiona Benson’s new collection, Vertigo and Ghost, is the follow-up to her multi-award winning debut collection Bright Travellers. One of the poems from the new collection was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The new collection is a book of such force, such bravery and such brilliance; Benson has written poems which will come to define the age through which we are living.

She is joined by Seán Hewitt, who is launching his debut pamphlet Lantern. Hewitt has won a Northern Writers Award, the 2017 Resurgence Prize and is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and is a fiction reviewer for the Irish Times. Fiona Benson has spoken of these poems’ “musicality, and their sensuous, tender rapture”.

The writers and researchers at Manchester Met, based in the Manchester Writing School, are always exploring two distinct paths within their work; how creative writing might serve as a mode of enquiry into the world and how such research might be disseminated outside of the academy in order for it to have the greatest impact. Our Writers at Manchester Met series allows us to interrogate the very best contemporary writing and continue to explore new ways in which it might reach wider audiences.