Centre for Place Writing

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Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting

Blue background with white writing "Longlist for the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry".
Anjum is standing in the middle of seven women all looking at the camera and smiling.
a woodland scene with a fallen tree across a path.
Image of book on grey background. The cover is blue and white with black text. Images in white on blue are partial images of two people's heads and a hand holding the handle of a case. Above is a picture of flowers.
An image of a person holding up a record in front of their face with black text on white background that reads: Pinchbeck and Smith 12.30 - 1pm 1.30 - 2pm (work-in-progress) There’s no alarm and no surprises. It’s just us. And them. And this. And now. Breathe, keep breathing. Don't lose your nerve. I can't do this alone. Pinchbeck & Smith have been here before. They’re in the dressing room, anxious about what happens next. They’re talking. They’re not talking. They’re OK-NOT-OK. These long-time collaborators turn their bond over Radiohead into a story that jumps like a needle between 1997 and now, orbiting the connected histories of OK Computer and the Mir Space Station. Exit Music explores male friendship as the two performers collide sci-fi with vinyl, archival research and acoustic guitar, to make a melancholy montage that hopes for a better future while reliving a haunted past. Today, Pinchbeck & Smith escape, as they support one another through fears about ageing, loss, alien abduction and stage fright – with a 5% chance of catastrophic failure. Supported by Performance Research Group, Future Flares Festival, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Lincoln. Presented as part the 2026 Future Flares Festival.
Book covers on a yellow background with text in black of book titles and authors.
Bright blue sky with a white tower in the centre - the top of the tower of light.
Screen shots from each of the five podcasts and radio programmes on a bright blue background.
9 book covers: Michael Symmons Roberts' Quartet for the End of Time, Common by Nikolai Duffy, The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher, Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers, Stowaway by Joe Shute, Moving Mountains edited by Louise Kenward, A Shorter Ulysses by James Joyce, The Book of Bogs edited by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw, and Night Vision by Jean Sprackland.
beginning of poetry reading from Night vision in the library with the lights off. All is visible are dark shapes and a glow through the window in the centre.
selfie of a white woman with long blonde hair, tattoos and piercings, wearing a green woolly hat with a snowy street behind her and forest in the distance.
Small group of people standing on a stage with light shining in through the window to the side, a backdrop behind them reading 'Festival of Research'.
Muted colour painting of large trees with figures walking beneath and open landscape in the distance. White and green text reads 'Envisioning landscapes Convegno finale, 15 e 16 ottobre 2025.
A tree surrounded by grass with a truck behind and metal plaque at its base.
Castlefield viaduct - horizontal architecture and bridge structures with graffiti in the foreground in front of tower blocks.
Canal runs through the centre of the image, between tall brick buildings with small windows.
Book cover of Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort - with an illustration of a mountain and small figure at the top.
sepia image of market stall with text in black.
view to the sky between pale stone buildings, clear blue sky above.
Pink poster with black text - detail in posts.
Orange border with black text inside of the poem, with image of Liam and bio below. Reads: A man at the front was yelling he knew how I did that after every trick. At what stage does a thought become an act? An attitude like that won't appear out of nowhere, how is a feeling like a fruit, when does a shoot become a plant, how does a baby grow ta-da from cosmic to a boy and how does that boy become a man who buys a ticket to my show just to heckle, I wondered, fumbling a bullet catch, losing another tooth.
City scape at sunset.
sepia coloured photograph of people in front of a market stall, text as in post.
blue text on poster with watery white and grey background. Text in post/s.
green building at the edge of a low lying rocky outcrop overlooking snow and ice below blue skies.
selfie pic of Helen Mort, a white woman with long blonde hair and a nose piercing, in a green hat, smiling into the camera, with a background of icebergs and frozen sea under a blue sky.
poster with text as in post and a picture of book cover On the Advice of Donna or a Dream by Sally Barrett.
indigo poster with blue text and colourful masks and film props. Text reads as in post.
cityscape beyond bare trees with tower blocks and cranes in the distance beneath a grey blue cloudy sky.
View through stone blocks onto standing stones and blue sky.
Dark blue background with book covers of Alex Allison 'Greatest of all time' and Curtis Garner's Isaac. White text reads 'Queer Fiction Monday 17th March 6.30pm'.
Inset image of Nicholson as an old man with white hair and beard, above a landscape image of Cumbria in black and white and the quote above reads: "I eat the equator, breathe the sky, and carry the great white sun in the dirt of my fingernails".
Moving Mountains book cover - indigo background with a feather, rosehips, leaves, rain drops and snowflakes in water colours around the title text.
A road with stone built cottages at the side, blue sky and the edge of Rachel's car with the wing mirror showing a partial reflection as she takes the photo.
piles of yiddish texts and books laid out on a table with the sun pouring through the window.
book cover in soft greys of a person on a barge with houses in the distance, with endorsement next to it from JLM Morton.
blue background with white diagonal ribbons that show the book title in capital letters 'ten things I've learnt about love', silhoettes of buildings, trees, a car and a figure are in charcoal.
black and white line drawing of children playing on a tree.
Book cover for 'Exire' by Helen Mort - a dark grey solid background broken up into white pixels at the top, with white and yellow pixellated text of title and author.
book cover for 'black car burning', text in white through middle of cover on background of spirals of blue and green cord with a carabiner at the end, hanging in the centre at the bottom of the image.
A white woman with blonde hair and tattoos wearing a black vest against a blurred background of greenery and trees.
Book cover of On Brick Lane, black and white image with a lion cub on a lead facing a small whippet like dog also on a lead, being held back, surrounded by people, close up of two children looking on.
Book Cover of Estuary, text in white over a moody image of London at distance with large sky and distant skyline.
book cover for 'On Brick Lane' with a lion cub on a lead and a dog a similar size also facing one another with children looking on.
Sunrise over the sea with a cloudy sky and rocky sea defences in the foreground
screen shot of instagram profile - small icons of images from posts below text for 'centre for place writing'
film poster for Orange Mechanique - a pale lilac/purple with white text and white liquid pouring into a glass in the middle
book cover of Ethel, with title and author in large solid white text and yellow drawings of plants woven through. Overlaid on a background of a photograph of a woman in black and white looking at the camera with short curly hair and a wooly hat. muted green background.
skeleton oak tree in silhouette to the foreground and left of the image with a field and trees in the distance, below a blue sky with white clouds.
multiple candles lit standing on a reflective surface.