Carcanet Book Launch | SuAndi: Leaning Against Time | 15 Oct 2025, 5.30pm (for 6pm) | Flexible Space, Aviva Studios, Manchester, Water Street, M3 4JQ

[Ambrose Musiyiwa]

Dear Colleagues,

You might be interested to know that on October 15, Factory International is hosting the launch of Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi, published by Carcanet Press.

The book launch takes place in the Flexible Space, Aviva Studios, Manchester, Water Street, M3 4JQ

Doors will open at 5.30pm. Event begins at 6pm.

Tickets are available here.

As Factory International Points out, "Leaning Against Time is the first substantial publication by SuAndi that brings together her work – as performer, writer for stage and arts curator. She has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, for services to literature across her career, which recognised her poems’ fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women’s lives – in Manchester, the city she grew up in – and of Black communities and the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in contemporary British literature.

"In this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the page. Though she is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric and the ballad, SuAndi’s poems defy easy categorisation and make visible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career.

"Refreshments will be provided and copies of the book will be available to purchase.

"Tickets for this event cost £2, redeemable against a copy of the book on the night."

Kind regards,

Ambrose Musiyiwa

Coordinator, Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series

Ambrose Musiyiwa | Coordinator, Journeys in Translation, (Journal Article; Video Playlist; Book Series) and The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series (Video Playlist; Call for Submissions; Funding Appeal) | (Ed.) [New Book] Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (CivicLeicester, 2024. Co-edited with Munya R); Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2023); Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (CivicLeicester, 2020)