T he Portico Library will be the venue for a rare Manchester reading by the distinguished New York poet and art dealer, Stanley Moss, as part of an international tour to launch his new Carcanet collection, It’s About Time.
Stanley will be joined by Evan Jones, the Canadian poet and former Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist, to complete this transatlantic evening of poetry in the heart of Manchester. The event is free and all are welcome.
Stanley Moss was born in New York City in 1925. He is the author of several collections of poetry, and is the editor and publisher of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit press devoted to poetry. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian old masters, and lives in Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York.
Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).
