The Blue Bus is pleased to present an event featuring poetry by Paul Buck, Paul Holman and Jaime Robles, on Tuesday 7^th January, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-fourth 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.

Paul Buck’s first book was Pimot (1968), and whilst he holds a fondness for all his books he might note re/qui/re(qui)re (1975), Lust (1976), Violations (1979), No title (1991), Walking into Myself (1995), Lisbon (2002), Spread Wide (2006)… along with his editing of Curtains through the 1970s and various off-shoots here and abroad… and his divertissements in film, theatre and music (albums with 48 Cameras, Marc Almond, Melinda Miel…). And not to forget countless books co-translated with his wife, Catherine Petit. Recent publishing includes A Public Intimacy (BookWorks), a text that strip-searches scrapbooks to expose autobiography and more, and Performance (Omnibus), a full-length biography of the Cammell/Roeg film, itself destined to be filmed. Currently working on what purports to be a fiction written through film criticism, and editing Disappearing Curtains, a sudden final issue of his magazine, using the exhibition at Focal Point Gallery as the core of the volume. Never wishing to escape presenting others, he is editing, with Catherine Petit, a series of books, under the banner Vauxhall&Company, to appear from Cabinet Gallery, that will publish translations by Pierre Klossowski, Colette Thomas, Bernard Noël, Georges Bataille, Pierre Guyotat and others, alongside works by himself, Stephen Barber & others that inflame and ravage on the boundaries of poetry, prose and theatre.

Paul Holman is the author of The Memory of the Drift. Books I-IV are available from Shearsman. A fifth book, Tara Morgana, is currently in preparation from Scarlet Imprint (http://www.scarletimprint.com/), who have also published his writing in their anthologies Datura and Mandragora. Work in progress can be found at http://paulholman.drupalgardens.com/. Material relating to Invisible Books, which he operates with Bridget Penney, is online at http://www.invisiblebooks.co.uk/.

Jaime Robles, a poet and book artist as well as reviewer, published her most recent book of poetry, Hoard, with Shearsman Books in January 2013. She has produced many of her texts as artist books, and her bookworks are in collections at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; The Beinecke Library, Yale University; and the Oulipo Archive in Paris, among others. Her poetry and reviews have been published in numerous magazines, among them Agenda, Conjunctions, New American Writing, Shadowtrain and Stride. She has written texts for several art song cycles and librettos for two one-act operas: Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), which was staged in 2012. She is a member of the poetry installation collective ExEgesis, located in Exeter, UK.

Forthcoming events will include Sharon Morris, Burt Kimmelman and Jeremy Hilton (5^th February), Elaine Randell, Robert Hampson and Joanne Ashcroft (18^th March), Holly Pester, Doug Jones and Keith Jebb (15^th April), Alan Halsey, Frances Presley and Ken White/David Miller (13^th May), and Helen Calcutt, James Davies, Lawrence Upton, Stephen Emmerson, Sarah Kelly, Juliet Troy, Robert Vas Dias and others.