The Manchester Book Market is back! The popular independent book market is returning as part of the Manchester International Festival for a three-day market accompanied by back-to-back performances from the cream of Manchester's spoke word scene.
The market is running 17th-19th July in St Anns Square and will give the public the opportunity to buy books directly from the UK’s leading independent publishers, as well as sample the latest emerging talent in spoken word from the North West. The market will feature over 20 presses, with publishers coming from all over the UK to take part.
In a special café area each day, some of the north west’s leading live literature/spoken word artists will perform throughout each day. Readers so far include Joe Stretch, Tony Walsh, Julian Daniel, Mike Garry, Akiel Chinelo, Elizabeth Baines, Louise Wallwein, Conrad Williams, Ailsa Cox, Zoe Lambert, Eleanor Rees, Mike Duff, Tim Lees, Annie Clarkson, Segun Le French, Tom Fletcher, Lula Blue and many, many more.
We are pleased to announce that Manchester Libraries will be at the market. Come and visit our stand and join the library! You can join the library at the book fair and take your shiny new library card home with you straightaway. Use your card in Central Library or any of our community libraries.
You'll also be able to buy our exclusive library book bag. Carry home you book fair wares in style with our limited edition jute shopper - and it's a bargain at £2.50!St Ann's Square. 11am-5.30pm.
Free. Readings at 2pm, 3.30pm and 5pm.
See www.literaturenorthwest.co.uk for more information.
Are you a poet or a budding poet? send us one of your own poems (not too long!) and we'll publish the best one here each month. Send entries to 
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If you would like to win a free copy of the current issue of Kudos (subscribers will have subs extended), just send me a haiku*, quatrain or limerick incorporating the words 'Manga Jiman'.
* which would work out at the equivalent of very nearly a whole 20p per syllable
1 entry only per person, by July 31;
emailed with 'Manga' as subject.
And the best may be considered for publication in Orbis.
You're also welcome to join the Orbis group online:
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Carole Baldock
www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com
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