The Other Room is putting on an extra, one-off event at The Town Hall Tavern, 20
Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA on Saturday, 18th May, 5 pm start. The readers are
derek beaulieu, Tom Jenks and Holly Pester. Details of all three readers are
below and previews of each will appear on The Other Room site (http://otherroom.org/) in the coming weeks.
derek
beaulieu is an internationally-recognized text artist, conceptual writer and
literary critic. He is the author or editor of 15 books, the most recent of
which are Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell
(co-edited with Lori Emerson) and Please, No more poetry: the selected
poetry of derek beaulieu (edited by Kit Dobson) both of which are published
by Wilfrid Laurier Unversity press. He is the publisher of the acclaimed
smallpresses housepress (1997–2004) and no press (2005–present) and is the
visual poetry editor at UBUWeb. Beaulieu has exhibited his work across Canada,
the United States and Europe and currently teaches at the Alberta College of Art
+ Design and Mount Royal University.
Tom Jenks
co-organises The Other Room and administers the avant objects imprint
zimZalla. He has produced and performed four collaborations with Chris McCabe
for SJ Fowler’s Camarade project, the most recent of which, I Boris, is a
contemporary re-working of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi. Recent publications
include a p.o.w. broadside slugs/snails. A 100 poem sequence with
accompanying visuals, streak artefacts, is forthcoming from Department
Press. He has published two collections with if p then q (A Priori and
*) and his third, items, a 1000 fragment verbivocovisual sequence,
is being launched at this event. He is a PhD student at Edge Hill University,
where he is researching digital technology and innovative poetry.
Holly
Pester is a London-based sound poet and researcher. Her work experiments in
frequencies of speech, song and articulated noise. She has performed at text,
art and poetry events including the Prague MicroFestival (2012); Text Festival
(2011); Serpentine Poetry Marathon (2009), and was a writer in residence at this
year’s dOCUMENTA 13. She has just completed a practice-base PhD in Sound Poetics
at Birkbeck, University of London. Holly Pester’s collection, Hoofs, was
released with if p then q press in 2011. More at http://www.hollypester.com/
