Ian Humphreys has been shortlisted three times for the Bridport Prize and has won the Hamish Canham Prize and the PENfro Poetry Competition. Ian is making waves as a fellow of the third incarnation of The Complete Works, a national mentoring scheme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets. The fruits of this fellowship will be featured in Bloodaxe’s much-anticipated poetry anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation. He’s is a graduate of Manchester Writing School and has been published in Ambit, The Rialto and Butcher’s Dog – look out for Ian in the forthcoming Magma 69: The Deaf Issue.

We enjoyed a packed-out debut monthly event at Gullivers in July following our move from our previous long-term home at The Castle. Don’t miss this month’s return to our brilliant new space.

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Wednesday 30 August 2017, 7.30pm at Gullivers (opposite The Castle), Oldham Street, Manchester. Free admission.

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