Exhibition

The Songs The Morning Sang

Andrew Brooks and Ian McMillian

5 June - 27 September 2025

'The Songs The Morning Sang’ is an exhibition by and collaboration between poet Ian McMillan and photographer Andrew Brooks. They explore the streets where they live in the early morning to capture some of the strangeness and beauty of the everyday world. 

This project was Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Pop-up exhibition

Holiday Sketches: Two Artists and an Archaeologist Husband go on Holiday in 1863

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Abbi Parcell: PhD Writer in Residence

Abbi Parcell (BA MA PGCE) is a butch writer and poet based in Manchester. She explores testimony of lived experience through auto-fictional practice. Her work explores intersections that shape personal identity, considering how internal processes intersect with external perceptions. Abbi focuses on the importance of establishing queer and in particular, lesbian histories, connections and how radical it has always been to simply exist.

She is currently a Writer in Residence at the Portico Library and is completing her PhD in Auto-fiction as Testimony at The University of Salford. Abbi has also worked with The Manchester Poetry Library, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester City of Literature, LIRG and The Poetry School London. Her poetry collection Hold Your Metaphors Accountable was released in 2023 and was published by Team Trident Press