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MLF and Poets And Players are delighted to be co-hosting this event featuring one of the UK’s best loved poets, Adrian Mitchell. He is a prolific poet, playwright and children’s writer. His poetry’s simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a vital, popular tradition embracing William Blake as well as the Border Ballads and the blues. His most nakedly political poems – about nuclear war, Vietnam, prisons and racism – have become part of the folklore of the Left, sung and recited at demonstrations and mass rallies. His latest book is The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004 (Bloodaxe). Performing with him will be the poet and jazz trombonist Paul Taylor.

Wednesday 22nd October
7.30pm
The Whitworth Art Gallery
Tickets: £7 / 5 concessions
Book on 0870 428 0785
www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

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Adrian Mitchell coughs and Paul Taylor blows through their reading at the Whitworth Art Gallery, as part of the Manchester Literature Festivalmore