The Manchester Writing School at MMU presents in association with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Kathleen Jamie
Reading for the first time in Manchester, multi-award-winning poet, essayist and nature writer Kathleen Jamie will launch her new book Sightlines. 'Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring us to look again at the ‘natural’, the remote and the human-made. She offers us the closest of perspectives, inviting us to gaze at vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, the pores of a whale’s jawbone under restoration, light filtering through trees. ... Written with precision, delicacy and personal recollection, Sightlines invites us to pause and look afresh at our surroundings.’
Kathleen will be reading from and talking about her work, and answering questions from the audience. Drinks will be available from the bar, and there’ll be a special Blackwell’s bookstall, with signing after the event.
Date: Friday 27th April 2012
Time: 6.30-8.00pm
Entry: Free – all welcome (booking not required, but email:
events@anthonyburgess.org to reserve seats)
Venue: The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Chorlton Mill,
Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY
Contact: James Draper: +44 (0) 161 247 1787; j.draper@mmu.ac.uk
The Manchester Writing School at MMU: www.mmu.ac.uk/writingschool
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation: www.anthonyburgess.org
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