Three brilliant contemporary Vintage poets showcase work from their excellent new collections which all explore themes of grief, lineage, and love.

Latinx poet Leo Boix’s Ballad of a Happy Immigrant travels from Buenos Aires to Merseyside to London, focusing on queer experience, family, displacement, and the sea.

Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition tracks an illness along its human trajectory, but also finds joy in music and dancing.

While Andrew McMillan’s third collection, Pandemonium, considers the vulnerability and fierceness in caring for a loved one, death, bodies and how solace can be found in the garden.

This is a Manchester Literature Festival event, presented in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Book tickets here.

Ticket holders please note: The venue & time for this event has changed from Central Library at 6pm to International Anthony Burgess Foundation at 6.30pm.

Please note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations when they arrive. You can view the venue’s full Covid policy here.