Holden Caulfield is a librarian and works with teenagers in Manchester promoting poetry and fiction. 'Men's Morning' is his first book and is being made into a film by the Black Arts Development Project. [buy the book]

Chloe Poems is, without any doubt, the most shocking and disgusting poet on the Manchester scene. The gay transvestite is capable of making jaws drop with the collection "Universal Rentboy" even in these unshockable times. [buy the book]

Manchester University lecturer and well-known poet, Jim Burns, won widespread acclaim for this collection of poems reflecting his own social outlook. [buy the book]

Lord Byron, born in London in 1788 became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale in 1808. While residing at Hopwood Hall, Middleton he worked on his most famous poem "Childe Harolde". [buy Lord Byron books]