In The Event by John Birtwhistle Azita Ghahreman Mancunia is – like More’s

Mancunia is – like More’s Utopia – both a no-place and an attempt at the good-place

Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson

Forché’s ability to wed the “political” with the “personal” places her in the company of such poets as Pablo Neruda

whose lives are held together by ideas

In The Event by John Birtwhistle Azita Ghahreman Mancunia is – like More’sJohn Birtwhistle has said that 'one writes each poem just to learn how to write it', and insists that he 'doesnt care a dried pea for Artistic Development or Finding One's Own Voice'. The result, of course, is that a strongly recognisable voice comes through. For all their variety of forms and ideas, his poems are consistent in their visual precision, their scrupulous phrasing and their formal clarity. These qualities are brought to everything he