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Events coming up at Saul Hay Gallery
above/ground book launch featuring David Gaffney, Lydia Unsworth, Tom Jenks
Thursday 26th February 2025
6.30 to 8.30pm
above/ground press present live poetry at Saul Hay Gallery
with David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, and Lydia Unsworth - plus art and free wine!
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Join us to celebrate the launch of David Gaffney’s pamphlet Lakes of Titan along with two other above/ground writers, Lydia Unsworth and Tom Jenks at one of the best hidden gem venues in Manchester, Saul Hay Gallery, in Castlefield, close to the Deansgate tram stop.
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Lydia, Tom and David will read from their above/ground pamphlets, and there will be free wine to drink, pamphlets to buy, and amazing art to look at on the walls of the gallery.
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David Gaffney’s collection of experimental prose, Lakes of Titan, is out now on above/ground press. David is the author of three novels, six short story collections, and two graphic novels with Dan Berry. His short story collection Concrete Fields (Salt Publishing 2023) was long listed for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, and his collection, Whale, was published by Osmosis in 2024.
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Tom Jenks' above/ground press book is Chimneys, a collection of shorter and shorter prose. Other books include The Philosopher (Sublunary Editions) and Melamine (The Red Ceilings Press). 2001 Proverbs, with SJ Fowler, is forthcoming from Kingston University Press in 2026. He also creates text art and edits the small press zimzalla, specialising in literary objects.
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Lydia Unsworth has four above/ground pamphlets, and a number of poetry collections, the newest being Stay Awhile (Knives Forks and Spoons - released 6 April 2026) and Arthropod (Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers). She is currently a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, exploring kinship with disappearing post-industrial architecture.
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above/ground is an independent publisher from Ottawa, Canada with a focus on innovative and experimental poetry and prose, managed, edited and curated by rob mcLennan.
FOUR POETS at Saul Hay Gallery
with Chad Campbell, Patrick Wright, Simon Haworth and Steve Kendall
Thursday 19th March 2025
Doors 6.30pm
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​Join us on Thursday 19th March from 6.30pm for this special poetry reading event. Out Four Poets will be introduced by fellow poet Ian Sople.
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Chad Campbell is the author of two books of poetry: Nectarine (Signal Editions, 2021), and Laws & Locks (Signal Editions, 2015), and the pamphlet, Euphonia (Anstruther Press, 2017). His poetry has been published and anthologized in North America and the UK, most recently in Carcanet New Poetries VIII. Chad was born in Waterloo, earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Manchester. He currently lives in Halifax, UK, where he is the co-lead of Creative Writing at the University of Leeds’ Lifelong Learning Centre. His third collection, Cold Country, is due out in 2027.
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Patrick Wright’s poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Wales, The North, and The London Magazine. His debut poetry collection, Full Sight of Her, was published by Eyewear (2020). His second collection, Exit Strategy, was published by Broken Sleep (2025). He is also the author of a pamphlet, Nullaby (Eyewear, 2017). His poems have twice been
nominated for the Bridport Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is an Associate Lecturer and Honorary Associate at the Open University, teaching English Literature and Creative Writing, and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Patrick was born and lives in Manchester.
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Simon Haworth is a poet based in Manchester where he has worked as a tutor and lecturer in Adult & Continuing Education as well as in Higher Education, teaching a range of courses in Poetry & Creative Writing, History of Music, Art History and Comparative Mythology. He received a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester after previously studying Classics and then pursuing editorial and journalistic work. His poems and reviews have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals in the UK, Ireland and the United States. He is presently putting together a first collection of poetry.
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Steve Kendall has a strong record of magazine publication, and his work has appeared widely – in Rialto, Magma, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog and 14, for example. He is a highly engaging performer of his own work. Following a successful career, working to widen access to higher education in the UK, Steve is now completing a PhD at Newcastle University,
researching the impact of the Morden Tower poetry reading series. He is developing a poetry collection, entitled Seventeen Towers and Seven Gates, structured around the towers, gates and bridges of Newcastle’s Town Walls and historic defences.
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Ian Pople's Spillway: New and Selected Poems is published by Carcanet.
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