Isabel Galleymore is a poet, critic and lecturer with a focus on ecopoetry. Her first collection, Significant Other (Carcanet), won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and her second collection, Baby Schema (Carcanet) was a PBS Recommendation in 2024. Her poems have featured in Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She has co-edited a book of insect poetry for children, published by The Emma Press. She is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

Hannah Copley is a British writer and academic who works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. She is the author of two collections: Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021); and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press) which was a Poetry Book Society Summer 2024 Recommendation, won second prize in the 2024 Laurel Prize and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024.

This event is funded by the Poetry Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University and is part of the Poetry Reading Series curated by Helen Mort.

Manchester Poetry Library is delighted to present a new event series curated by Professor Helen Mort. Including Isabelle Galleymore, Glyn Maxwell and Roy MacFarlane the series will feature readings and opportunity to ask questions. Professor Mort said ‘I’m interested in how contemporary poets engage with the more?than-human in their work, from Isabel Galleymore’s examination of ‘cuteness’ in an era of hyper-capitalism, to Glyn Maxwell’s new poems on endangered species, to Roy Macfarlane’s experiences as canal poet laureate. How do we give voice to species and place in poetry? What are the challenges of doing so? And can poetry protect and preserve?’

Hannah Copley and Isabelle Galleymore in conversation [ONLINE TICKET]