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

Caroline Crew

Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson

divided into three sections: water

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer’s ‘morning pages’ – until they reach the book’s arresting central sequence

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