Elizabeth James will perform at the next Other Room on Thursday, 15th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham St., Manchester, M4 1LE. 7pm start, admission free. Visit her site for more information, including some links to poems. The other readers are Harry Gilonis and Jo Langton. A preview of Jo will appear tomorrow.

Elizabeth James is one of the dodgy tribe of librarian-poets. She has had poems published in magazines, small press pamphlets / chapbooks, on the web, and once as a CD sleeve note. She has often worked collaboratively with other poets including Frances Presley (‘Neither the One Nor the Other’ published by Form Books] and Peter Manson (Two Renga’, published in a Reality Street ‘Four Pack’);  with Jane Draycott she made a series of audio works combining poetry and other material, for independent and BBC radio; at the turn of the millennium too she experimented briefly with electronic poetry, including an early hypertext collaboration with Miekal And, still online. Her solo chapbook, ‘Base to Carry’ was published by Barque Press. A selection of work can be heard on the Archive of the Now. Has done other kinds of writing, including occasional art criticism and essays, and has a career as a librarian and curator at the National Art Library, a public research and reference library within the Victoria & Albert Museum.