Reading for the first time in Manchester, multi-awardwinning 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.’ In association with the Writing School at MMU and Blackwell’s.