Manchester’s award winning literary gang, Bad Language, are continuing to bring exciting poets to Manchester and step out of their regular monthly night for a special one-off event with BBC Poetry Slam Champion Jess Green on Monday 29 October. Following on from her sell-out success in Edinburgh with her live show, A Self-Help Guide To Being In Love With Jeremy Corbyn, The Labour leader lover brings her book of the same name to Manchester. Having made a name for herself with YouTube smash hit poems like Dear Mr Gove, Jess has come to the fore as one of a new wave of political slam poets rallying against the government and supporting the left. The event at the International Anthony Burgess Centre will see support come from , Jackie Hagan, fresh from her run of sell out shows including ‘Some People Have Too Many Legs’.

Mon 29 Oct, International Anthony Burgess Centre, Cambridge St, M1 5BY. £7, 7pm, www.seetickets.com

Mon 29 Oct
Words:
John Stansfield
Published on:
Thu 25 Oct 2018