9 July: An Evening with Bill Manhire and Kate Kilalea

Kate Kilalea and Bill Manhire

Join Carcanet Press at Waterstone’s Deansgate, Manchester for an evening of world class poetry with Bill Manhire and Katharine Kilalea on 9 July at 7pm.

This event is the North West leg of Poetry Parnassus, the Southbank Centre’s ambitious poetry project gathering international poets from every competing country. New Zealand’s Bill Manhire and South Africa’s Katharine Kilalea (each representing their country at Poetry Parnassus) will read and discuss their poems with Carcanet’s Michael Schmidt.

The event is free! There's no need to book. Contact Carcanet Press or Waterstone’s Deansgate for more information.

Collected Poems

Bill Manhire, New Zealand’s leading poet, was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He is director of the celebrated centre for creative writing at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of numerous books of poems, essays and short fiction, including Collected Poems and the collection Lifted, both published by Carcanet. Manhire will be Poet in Residence at Ledbury Festival in July.

One Eye'd Leigh

Katharine Kilalea was born in South Africa and moved to London in 2005 to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first book, One Eye’d Leigh (Carcanet, 2009), was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and the 2010 Forward Prize Anthology and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She has performed her work at festivals and venues including the Southbank Centre, the Wordsworth Trust Poetry Festival and Worlds Literary Festival.

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