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The North Recommends: The Poetry Book Society
19 June 2020 by
Summer is finally here and we can’t wait to share our seasonal selections with you. As I write, our members...
The North Recommends: Carcanet Press
19 June 2020 by
Founded 1969 by Mexican-born Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press has been publishing outstanding poetry in English and translation from around the...
The North Recommends: Forum Books
19 June 2020 by
Forum Books are up for Best Indie Bookshop in The British Book Awards having won the North round. The awards...
10 Books by Black Northern Writers
19 June 2020 by
We are horrified by the acts of racism, injustice and intolerance that are the daily experience of many. New...
Interview with Eliza Clark
19 June 2020 by
In Boy Parts, the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men...
New Writing North: What We’re Reading
19 June 2020 by
Claire Malcolm – Whilst on lockdown I’ve been up and down with reading, sometimes intensely paging through books...
Home Time – with Helen Shaddock
14 June 2020 by
With a free journal template, Home Time invites you to draw and write your day, and to reflect upon the small details that make each day unique.
Tony Walsh: The Sum of Us
14 June 2020 by
In 2020, Tony Walsh wrote a powerful and thought-provoking new poem to bring the country back together and show that collectively the sum of us is greater than its parts.
Home Time
10 June 2020 by
The news that we were to go into lockdown hit me hard. Panic set in. I’m a creature of habit...
Murmuration: a collective film poem
31 May 2020 by
A collective poem in a time of climate crisis and coronavirus, by Linda France and Kate Sweeney.
Climate Reading Group: The Caiplie Caves
22 May 2020 by
Sadly, my Zoom app couldn’t bear the strain of travelling back to the 7th century and the Caiplie Caves on...
Interview with Emma Layfield, Picture Book Development Director, North at Hachette Children’s Group
31 March 2020 by
We speak to Emma Layfield, Picture Book Development Director, North at Hachette Children’s Group, about her recent move up to Manchester,...
