SPECIAL GUEST NORTHERN HIGHLIGHT - BECKY SWAIN

SPECIAL GUEST NORTHERN HIGHLIGHT Becky Swain, Director of Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester Metropolitan University Can you tell us about the North West’s first public poetry library? Well, the power of poetry and libraries combined. I always have to take a moment to breathe in and out when I think of the infinite possibilities. Manchester Poetry Library is home to a poetry collection of over 10,000 titles and a year-round public programme. We have had such a positive response to creating the library. Working with people across and beyond the region, we want to ensure that poetry from over 200 of Manchester’s community languages is represented within the collection. It will be open to everyone, with visitors able to enjoy and borrow from the collection of contemporary poetry; written, spoken and on film. If you think of anything that you feel we ought to have in our collection, then let us know. Although we are not able to open the physical doors to the library until Co