'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.
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Holiday Sketches: Two Artists and an Archaeologist Husband go on Holiday in 1863
Holiday Sketches
Friday, May 2, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
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How to Read A Book
Stephen Emmerson
How To Read A Book is an exhibition concerned with language, writing, and memory. It also explores themes of neurodiversity, including dyslexia, by offering visitors an alternative way of approaching books and text.
Applying methods found in palmistry to lines found on the covers of well-read paperback books, this exhibition is an invitation to make art out of the everyday.
Also featured are a selection of images from The universe of books, The book farm, and other works centred around language, the book, and the limits of poetry.
Stephen Emmerson is a writer and artist. His most recent publications are: flight , published by Guillemot Press, Big Song , published by Broken Sleep Books, and Gallery and A Box of Ideas , both published by Timglaset Editions.
An artists book which coincides with this exhibition isalso available.
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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
Abbi Parcell
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