Literature North West

When : 15th May 2008 - 1:00pm
Where : Central Library
Price : Free

Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire,
where sheís lived for the last thirty years. Her first collection
Circumnavigation won the Poetry Business Competition and
was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection.
Her second book, Teach Yourself Mapmaking (Smith/Doorstop)
is a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

Mike Barlow won first prize in the Amnesty International Competition 2002 and first prize in the Ledbury Competition 2005. His first collection, Living on the Difference, was short-listed for the
Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize. He has read at the Troubadour, London,
Lancaster Literature Festival and Aldeburgh Festival. Mike was
the 2006 winner of the National Poetry Competition. His
second collection, Another Place has recently been published by Salt.

For more information please contact Darren Rawcliffe on 0161 234 1981

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