Book Launch: Fiery Words for Hellish Times by Attila the Stockbroker.<\/p>\n
Thursday 30th April, 6.00pm \u2013 7.15pm.
\nManchester Central Library, St Peter\u2019s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.
\nDoors open 5.40pm and free entry.<\/p>\n
Punk poet, latterly dub poet, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker exploded into public consciousness in 1982-3 via two John Peel sessions and a Melody Maker front cover, and is now celebrating 45 years earning a living doing what he loves.<\/p>\n
Fiery Words for Hellish Times is his most topical and incendiary publication yet. As the news goes from awful to worse, these are poems to make you laugh, cry, get angry, and above all, think!<\/p>\n
Presented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Book Launch: Fiery Words for Hellish Times by Attila the Stockbroker.
\nThursday 30th April, 6.00pm at Manchester Central Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16417,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16407","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"listing_region":"North West","listing_date":"20260430","listing_time":"6pm-7:15pm","listing_link":"https:\/\/www.manchestercityofliterature.com\/event\/book-launch-attila-the-stockbroker-fiery-words-for-hellish-times\/"},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-30-at-14.24.44.png",668,982,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/16407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/16407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/16407\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}