Now this looks interesting. Lemn Sissay, currently artist in residence at the Southbank Centre will be curating a special evening of Manchester themed events on Friday night. Lemn is probably best known for his "public poetry" which adorns the walls of a number of Manchester buildings. The pictures below are of a pub called Hardy's Well, which is situated on a busy bus route from South Manchester into the centre of the city. Part of the fun is that you see the poem each time you catch the bus into town but rarely have time to read the whole thing before the bus ploughs on.
Friday night's event is entitled 24 Hour Party People which just goes to show that even great poets can sometimes suffer from an embarassing lack of imagination. The gigs feature, amongst others, Dave Haslam, who has basically made a career out of being more Mancunian than anyone else ever, socialist poet Chloe Poems, Johnny Bramwell from I am Kloot, Henry Normal and, god forbid, Terry Christian. So it's a true mixed bag.
It remains to be seen whether this is yet more dull Manchester mythologising or whether it will actually be a fun, original night out. Probably worth turning up for though if only to gaze at the beautiful new Southbank Centre building.
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