SoundEye festival, 7th-9th July 2017

I’ll be reading on Saturday 8th July at 7pm (with Emilia Weber and Maurice Scully), as part of the SoundEye poetry festival in Cork, Ireland.  Readings will be at The Guesthouse in Chapel Street, Shandon, and also in the Musgrave Theatre, in the Firkin Crane, also in Shandon.  Other readers include Ellen Dillon, Randolph Healy, Trevor Joyce, Fergal Gaynor, Mark Weiss, Camilla Nelson, Nat Raha, Maggie O’Sullivan, Peter Gizzi, Billy Mills, Sarah Hayden, Nisha Ramayya, Walt Warriner-Cummins and associates, Geoff Squires, Keith Tuma, Mike Saunders, Mairead Byrne, Mendoza, John Hall, Gwen Muren and Catherine Walsh.

 

Edinburgh reading, 22nd May 2017

I’ll be reading with Nat Raha and Rob Halpern on Monday 22nd May 2017 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.  7pm.  Free entry, but advance booking recommended: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rob-halpern-nat-raha-peter-manson-tickets-34086160624.  Access statement for the venue here.  Thanks to Colin Herd for organising.

Manson symposium, 27th-28th October 2017

There will be a symposium on, uh, me at the University of Glasgow, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th October 2017.  Friday evening is a poetry reading, featuring (among others) Linus Slug, Nat Raha, Nick-e Melville, Jow Lindsay, Sarah Hayden and Holly Pester.  Symposium proper on Saturday, followed by a reading by, uh, me.

More information and Call for Papers at https://mansonsymposium.com/

Thanks to Ellen Dillon, Tom Betteridge, Colin Herd and nicky melville for organising.

SoundEye Festival, 8-10 July 2016

Very pleased to say I’ll be reading at this year’s SoundEye Festival in Cork, Ireland.  Here’s the programme:

July 8th-10th

Guest House, Chapel Street, Cork, Ireland

Fri 8^th 

7pm

Aodán McCardle

Sophie Seita

Peter Manson

 

Sat 9^th

12 noon

Ellen Dillon

Edmund Hardy

 

3 pm

Mendoza

Sam Solomon

 

7 pm

Amanda Ackerman

Jeff Hilson

 

Sun 10^th

12 noon

Linda Norton

Luke McMullan

 

Followed by Closed Mic

& Lunch!

Reading in Boise, 19th February 2016

I’ll be reading for the Boise State University MFA Reading Series, at 7:30pm on Friday 19th February 2016. Venue: The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, Idaho 83702, USA.  The reading is free and open to the public. Website: http://english.boisestate.edu/mfa/visiting-writers/

Thanks to Martin Corless-Smith and Maya Duratovic for organising.

Reading in Brighton, 27th January 2016

I’ll be reading with Holly Pester and Xelis de Toro at Hi Zero in Brighton on Wednesday 27th January 2016.  Venue: upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, just down from the train station on Queen’s road, Brighton.  Doors at 7:30pm for an 8pm start. £4. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/539596539532777/

Thanks to Joe Luna for organising.

May/June readings in Glasgow and London

Two readings coming up soon:

Tuesday 26th May 2015: reading with Calum Rodger at the University of Glasgow 4th International Post-Graduate Arts and Humanities Conference.  8pm at the Gilchrist Postgraduate Club, opposite main gate on University Avenue.   Free entry.

Wednesday 3rd June 2015: reading with Martin Corless-Smith at Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 2AE.  6.30pm, £5 or £3 entrance.  Facebook page here.