Over 100 people who have experienced homelessness have made a medieval-style illuminated manuscript describing life, death and their dreams, in a 2-year project – which launches at Manchester Cathedral 14 Oct 2.30-4pm.

“I’ve turned something nightmare-ish into something else. That experience of being homeless, which I’ve never talked about. A lot of my friends didn’t know it was happening. But now those memories have become part of something beautiful.” (Anonymous)

The poems, artworks and songs celebrate a wide cross-section of individual lives, lives that don’t appear in history books, but A BOOK OF OURS aims to change that. The project was devised and directed by poet Philip Davenport and visual artist Lois Blackburn, who work together as arthur+martha.