Friday, 25 October 2019 at 6:30 pm – Friday, 25 October 2019 at 8:00 pm

Ian Humphreys, Alison Winch & Jennifer Lee Tsai

Date: Friday 25th October 2019

Time: 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start

Location: BS 1.24 in the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6BH

Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite 

Hosted by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University

Come join three exciting poets, each launching their debut collection this year. Manchester Writing School alumnus, Ian Humphreys will be reading from Zebra (Nine Arches Press), which Jean Sprackland describe as “a powerful, moving, original body of work”. He will be reading alongside his fellow Writing School graduate, Alison Winch, of whose collection Darling, It’s Me (Penned in the Margins), Clare Pollard writes is “one of the cleverest, filthiest, most incendiary debuts I’ve ever read." Jennifer Lee Tsai joins them to celebrate her new pamphlet Kismet (ignitionpress) and its poetry which Sandeep Parmar says “gives us a crystalline language for loss, silence and memory”.

Biographies

Alison Winch's debut collection is Darling, It's Me (Penned in the Margins 2019).

Jennifer Lee Tsai is a poet, critic and editor based in Liverpool. She is a fellow of The Complete Works and a Ledbury Poetry Critic. She is a Contributing Editor to Ambit and an Associate Editor of SMOKE magazine. Her poems are published in Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe: 2017) and in numerous magazines and journals including Ambit, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto and Wild Court. Her debut poetry pamphlet is Kismet (ignitionpress, 2019).

Ian Humphreys’ debut collection is Zebra (Nine Arches Press, 2019). He has been widely published in journals including The Poetry Review, The Rialto and Magma. Awards include first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize and highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. A fellow of The Complete Works, Ian’s poems feature in Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe).