Knives Forks and Spoons presents Ira Lightman and Angela Topping in the swarve Matt and Phred’s. Nice.
13th December, 7pm doors.
Click the link for more details.
Knives Forks and Spoons presents Ira Lightman and Angela Topping in the swarve Matt and Phred’s. Nice.
13th December, 7pm doors.
Click the link for more details.
Other Room reader Craig Dworkin’s new book is out now from Roof books and is a continuation of his COPYS project which featured in Matchbox and The Other Room Anthology 2.
LINK to Roof
Other Room reader Phil Hall has won the prestigious Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. Congratulations to him.

Other Room reader Phil Hall’ collection Killdeer has been nominated for the prestigious Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. The Governor General’s Literary Awards (the GGs) honour the best in Canadian literature. The winner will be announced on 15th November.
Vanessa Place reads at our September 2011 event at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
Halsey (vocals) and Beck (sax and bassoon) perform six poems by dada man Hugo Ball at The Other Room 28, September 2011.
Two videos from our August event:
Two videos from our August event:
Two videos from our August event:
For your diary our next scheduled events are as follows:
October 26th 2011, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Jennifer Cooke, Colin Herd & Steven Fowler
February 29th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room with Andrea Brady, nick-e melville & Tim Allen
April 19th 2012, 7.00 @ Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, The Other Room 4th birthday with Tony Lopez, Paula Claire, Becky Cremin & Elena Rivera
Preview of Vanessa Place for Monday 26th September’s event at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (more details in middle column). Also up are Mick Beck & Alan Halsey (performing Hugo Ball poems) and Phil Hall.
Page at Penn Sound – http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Place.php
Review of Notes on Conceptualism at Transveral Inflections – http://tinyurl.com/33jqkhg
Readers at The Free Verse Book Fair organised by Charles Boyle
Ward Wood
Sue Guiney and Peter Phillips 11-11.45 Michael Horovitz
12-12.30 Happenstance Press
Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving, Lorna Dowell, Peter Daniels, Clare Best and D A Prince
12.30-1 Nine Arches Press
Ruth Larbey and Matt Merritt
1-1.30 Reality Street
Jim Goar and James Davies
1.30-2 Rack Press
Roisin Tierney, Nicholas Murray and Katy Evans-Bush
2-2.30 CB Editions
Christopher Reid and Nancy Gafford
2.30-3 Carcanet
Will Eaves and Ian Pindar
3-3.30 if p then q
Lucy Harvest Clarke and Tom Jenks
3.30-4 Flipped Eye
Max Wallis and Kate McLoughlin
4-4.30 Penned in the Margins
Gemma Seltzer and Siddhartha Bose
4.30-5 Waterloo Press
Jeremy Reed, Niall McDevitt and Philip Ruthen
Some taster links for Phil Hall who reads on Monday September 26th at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester (see middle column for more details). Other performers are Vanessa Place and Mick Beck & Alan Halsey (performing Hugo Ball poems)
INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS POETRY At OPEN BOOK TORONTO – http://tinyurl.com/y82m22a
SOME POEMS IN JACKET – http://tinyurl.com/3k9vq5l
Alan Halsey will perform some Hugo Ball poems at the next Other Room event alongside Mick Beck, Monday 26th September, at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (more deatils in the middle column). Also performing Vanessa Place and Phil Hall. Some of Alan’s recent work with sound is his involvement with the anti-choir Juxtavoices.
Here’s a clip:
Taking place at Voewood House in High Kelling, Norfolk, 27th – 29th August, the Voewood Festival is “dedicated to the written word.” Performers include Emily Critchley and SJ Fowler.