The Department Store, 5 Oak Street
Thu 22 Oct · 19:00 · £25
This event is now on sale to MLF Get Closer Members. Tickets go on general sale 10am Thursday 13 August. Memberships start at £25 per year - for full details click HERE . This year’s annual Rylands Poetry Reading is delivered by Karen Solie. Her latest collection Wellwater , exploring the profound impact of economic and environmental crises on human culture alongside vivid childhood memories of growing up in rural Canada, won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2025. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear one of the most astonishing and vital voices in world poetry perform her award winning poems and discuss her craft. 'An essential writer: anyone remotely interested in 21st-century literature, or 21st-century life, should read her . . . Her writing swerves from gritty to sublime, philosophical to street-smart.' Tristram Fane Saunders, Telegraph Karen Solie has published six collections of poetry including Pigeon , which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Award for Poetry. She teaches at the University of St Andrews, is an Associate Director for the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio programme and the recent recipient of a prestigious Windham Campbell Award. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Please join us for a pre-event drink from 6pm. Wheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 2015 to purchase tickets.
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.