# Event Details - **Event Name**: THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Jane Hirshfield in conversation with John McAuliffe at the International Anthony Burgess FoundationAbout this EventBlackwell's are delighted to partner with The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and Poetry Ireland to welcome Jane Hirshfield to Manchester. Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to hear Jane read from and discuss her collection The Asking with John McAuliffe.Tickets are £4 or admission is free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option.Please note that online ticket sales will end at 5pm on the 27th April, thereafter tickets will be able to be purchased on the door.About the book:Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (2005), as well as drawing upon four later collections, After (2006), Come, Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020), along with a selection of 29 new poems.About the author:Jane Hirshfield, born in New York City and a longtime resident of northern California, has published eleven books of poetry, most recently The Asking: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This draws upon books including her earlier UK retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), and four subsequent collections published by Bloodaxe in the UK: After (2006), Come, Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020). After was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past, and has long been one of American poetry’s foremost environmental advocates. Her honours include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award. A book of her Newcastle/ Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008.If you want more detail then go to bloodaxebooks.comThanks are due to Poetry Ireland and to Jane Hirshfield’s UK publishers Bloodaxe Books for enabling her to travel from northern California to Dublin and Manchester to read from her bookThe Asking: New & Selected Poems(2024). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/the-asking-jane-hirshfield-in-conversation/100001984710429321 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, health-wellness, meditation - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 4, max: 15, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: International Anthony Burgess Foundation - **lat**: 53.4723744 - **long**: -2.2434684 - **full address**: International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/795181833f107aadc3acca8da93dab62ac980bd7d0c315e9f07a669127c8aafe-rimg-w1200-h600-dce8e8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1774132644 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation being held? - **A:** THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation takes place on Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation? - **A:** Ticket prices for THE ASKING: Jane Hirshfield in conversation range from GBP 4 to GBP 15 depending on the ticket type. 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