The next Other Room is on Wednesday 3rd June. Here is some information about the three great writers who will be performing. Hope to see you there.

THE OTHER ROOM VIII

MATT DALBY started to explore the possibilities of sound poetry just over a year ago. He is part way through a project to release a CD-R of sound poetry a month throughout 2009. His work has featured on Wordsalad broadcasts. He is currently engaged in a variety of sound collaborations and has two full length records due out on limited edition imprints in Canada later in the summer.

ALEX DAVIES is 25, lives with his girlfriend Gemma in Wigan and is currently working a series of excruciatingly dull jobs while he seeks worthwhile employment. Hunter S Thompson and Kenneth Goldsmith are his best his friends on Facebook and Myspace. He is working on his magnet opium, a beastly collection called LONDONSTONE. His work is featured in ‘veer off’ (Veer Books, 2008) past simple 6 and City State: New London Poetry (Penned In The Margins, 2009).

ALLEN FISHER has been writing since 1962. He has published over 140 publications of art documentation, conceptual work and poetry. He employs interdisciplinary techniques in performance and installation works, drawing mainly from poetry and visual art. Part of his processual work is in the Tate Collection and his painted work is owned by museums in Hereford and Iceland, the King’s College Archive and private collections in America, Australia and Britain. His last one-artist show was at the Kings’ Archive in 2003. His most recent publication is PLACE (Reality Street, 2005). He currently lives in Hereford and Crewe and ‘in transit’