Talk #174

Simon Moreton

Tuesday 13 April 2027, 5.30pm

The Salutation Pub (upstairs)
Higher Chatham Street
Manchester
M15 6ED

In 2021, Simon’s book WHERE? was published by Little Toller. A hybrid work of prose, drawing, painting, photographs and collage, it connects themes of belonging and grief associated with his father’s death in 2017 to the folklore, customs and social histories associated with his childhood home on Titterstone Clee Hill in Shropshire.

Simon is now revisiting Titterstone Clee as a new father, exploring how walking, drawing and other creative practices can be used to triangulate historical representations of place with voices in the archive and our own personal stories about the landscapes in which we exist, especially within the paradox of personal happiness in a time of multiple global crises.

Simon is an artist and writer. He is the producer of numerous zines of prose, poetry and pictures, including his regular series of writing and pictures documenting his life, Minor Leagues. He is the author of Now is the Time to Know Everything (2023), a book about the bewildering excitement of pregnancy and the heartbreak of miscarriage, written in the form of a love letter to a person who never quite came to be. His experimental memoir WHERE? (Little Toller, 2021) documents the unexpected links between landscape, grief, and childhood that appeared in the aftermath of his father’s death in 2017. Gardening Beneath a Falling Piano, a pamphlet of poetry, was published by Bored Wolves in 2024. He is Associate Professor of Creative Economies at UWE Bristol.

This talk is presented in association with the Manchester Centre for Place Writing.