The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Helen Calcutt, Robert Vas Dias and Sophie Herxheimer on Tuesday 17^th June from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-ninth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. She works prolifically, on large and small scale projects, across several forms.A fluency with colour, language, drawing and performance informs her practice. The Thames Festival commissioned Feast Linen (2008) a 300metre screen-printed tablecloth for several thousand diners spanning Southwark Bridge.In 2011, Radio 4’s Food Programme dedicated an episode to Sophie’s ‘Pie-Days’ project, a Margate regeneration commission. Recent publications include Ghost Hotel, Hurricane Butter and london. Residencies includeLIFT, London Printworks Trust, Transport for London. Exhibitions include The Whitworth, National Portrait Gallery, The Poetry Library.Sophie teaches and collaborates extensively.

Robert Vas Dias, an Anglo-American born and now resident in London, has published eleven collections in the UK and USA, the most recent of which are Arrivals & Departures, Shearsman 2014, London Cityscape Sijo, Perdika, 2012, and Still · Life and Other Poems of Art and Artifice, Shearsman, 2010. A broadsheet, Stalker, appeared in the p.o.w. series this year. His poetry and criticism have appeared in over 100 magazines, journals, and anthologies in both countries. A festschrift, Entailing Happiness, with contributions by 35 poets and writers, appeared in 2011. A collaborative artist’s book with Julia Farrer, Syntax of Bridges, will be published later in 2014. He was founder-director of the Aspen Writers Workshop in Colorado and General Secretary of The Poetry Society in London. He teaches for The Poetry School in London. www.robertvasdias.com

Helen Calcutt is a poet, dance artist and journalist. She is the author of ‘Sudden rainfall’, her first collection of poetry, published by Perdika Press in 2013. Helen’s creative and critical work has been published globally, featuring in journals such as Equinox, The London Magazine, Poetry Scotland, Fused, and the Wales Arts Review. Her new project ‘A Bodily Writing’ launches at London’s Southbank Centre this summer, and explores dance &poetry as a unified art-form. She is currently working on her second full-length collection under the working title ‘Blue Warrior’.