Harry Gilonis will read at the next Other Room on Thursday, 15th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham St., Manchester, M4 1LE. 7pm start, admission free. For a flavour of his work, try this clip of him reading at Xing the Line last year. You can also read his Remarks on Poetry and Violence at the Militant Poetics site, read 3 poems at the eleksographia site, or watch him perform with Tim Atkins at last year’s Camarade event.

Previews of the other readers, Elizabeth James and Jo Langton, will appear soon.

Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and writer on art, poetry and music. His last appearance in Manchester was in a debate at Manchester Metropolitan University, opposing the curious proposition that “art is art and everything else is everything else”; his last reading in Manchester was at a squat in Rusholme.  His activity is often collaborative; he has co-published a renga written collectively with Tony Baker, from far away (Oasis Books) as well as several collaborations with visual artists.  There are a couple of very small collaborations with Elizabeth James, one published in a recent issue of the Anglo-Catalan magazine Alba Londres.  His most recent publications include a book of “faithless” Chinese translations, eye-blink (from London’s Veer Books), and a poem accompanying the solo CD, Whitstable Solos, by Evan Parker (Psi).