Carol Ann Duffy and Robin Robertson

Contact: J.Draper@mmu.ac.uk

The first in a series of WORD events presented by the Manchester Writing School at MMU in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre.

MMU Professor of Poetry Michael Symmons Roberts introduces Robin Robertson and Carol Ann Duffy, who will be reading from their work. The event will be followed by a book signing in the Great Hall.

Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He has published three previous collections, A PAINTED FIELD (1997), SLOW AIR (2002) and SWITHERING (2006), and has received a number of awards for his work, including the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and all three Forward Prizes – most recently the 2009 Prize for Best Single Poem, for AT ROANE HEAD. His fourth collection is THE WRECKING LIGHT (2010).

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School at MMU. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for RAPTURE. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.

Price includes £1 book token for use at the special Blackwell’s bookstall on the night

Book online at www.royalexchangetheatre.co.uk or contact the box office: + 44 (0) 161 833 9833

Entry: Tickets: £5/£3.50

Time: 7:30pm