Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Paul Farley, Leonitia Flynn, Deryn Rees-Jones and Rosie Garland are just some of the poetic names appearing at Manchester literature festival, which runs officially from 8-23 October. Included among the host of events are two prize nights – the Cathedral poetry prize on 11 October, and the Manchester poetry prize on 19 October. Or there is a Poems of the City literary tour on 11 October, walking in the footsteps of John Cooper Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Lemn Sissay, and Mike Harding (think rain, football, cathedral-building and revolution). There are many more details here