The next Other Room will be on Wednesday 24th August at The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY, on Manchester Science Park. The performers are David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham and Philip Terry. 7 pm start. There will be a bookstall stocked with publications from the three performers and other books, chapbooks, pamphlets and objects from the north-west’s vibrant small publishing scene.
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Details of the three performers below. Previews of each will appear here over the next month.
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DAVID BERRIDGE lives in London, where he curates VerySmallKitchen. He makes language works for exhibition, performance, print and online publication. In print, The Moth Is Moth This Money Night Moth is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press and Kafka Thinking Stations: A Chora(L) Song Cycle by The Arthur Shilling Press. Electronically, Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys is published by Beard of Bees and Black Gardens by The Red Ceilings Press.
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RACHEL LOIS CLAPHAM produces writing on and as performance as part of UK collaboration Open Dialogues and curates radical writing with the Arts Council partnership In a word…. Her own practice points…, punctuates movement and presses on physical gestures as text. Recent work includes Re- (PSL Gallery Leeds, Norwich Arts Centre and John Latham Archive London), WORK TRY HARD (Kaleid Editions) and (W)reading Performance Writing : A Guide (Live Art Development Agency). wwwopendialogues.com
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PHILIP TERRY was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (Vintage, 2000), Fables of Aesop (Gilliland Press, 2006) and the poetry collection Oulipoems (Ahadada, 2006). In 2008 Carcanet published his acclaimed translation of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality. His latest Carcanet collection Shakespeare’s Sonnets was published in 2010. His chapbook Dante’s Inferno is published by Oystercatcher Press.
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