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Dear All
Please find details of the next Other Room below.
All best wishes
James, Tom and Scott
The Other Room 29
Wednesday 26th October 2011, 7.00 pm.
Jennifer Cooke, Steven J Fowler & Colin Herd The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY, on Manchester Science Park.
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Jennifer Cooke is a London-based poet whose work can be found online and in print, courtesy of the following publications, among others: Onedit, Great Works, Quid, Punch, Intercapillary Space, Breach, Succour and Archive of the Now. She edited an East Midlands issue of Cleaves journal while living in Leicester two years ago. Her poem-sequence set to music composed by Adam Robinson, Steel Girdered Her Musical: In Several Parts, is the topic of a chapter in the forthcoming book, Britannia’s New Tongues, by David and Christine Kennedy. Jennifer has a book collection of poetry coming out this year (or next) with Contraband Press, University of Surrey, entitled *not suitable for domestic sublimation. She runs a poetry reading group in London with Emily Critchley. Jennifer is currently (& slowly) writing a series of poems about water, another text and music collaboration with Adam Robinson. Jennifer works as Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, and has publications on modernism, contemporary poetry, psychoanalysis, and Hélène Cixous. She is author of Legacies in Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (Palgrave, 2009) and is currently writing a monograph entitled Experimentalism, Intimacy, Affect which examines the usage of intimacy as an experimental tactic in texts from modernism to the present.
Steven J Fowler has published two collections Fights (Veer books) and Red Museum (Knives Forks and Spoons), and has two forthcoming, Minimum Security Prison Dentistry (AAA press) and the Lamb pit (Eggbox publishing). He has published over 10 chapbooks with presses like Writers Forum, the Red Ceilings, Arthur Shilling press and Oystercatcher, and he has over 100 publications in journals and online. He is the poetry editor of 3am magazine, and the weekly Maintenant interview series and the UK editor of lyrikline. He is a postgraduate student at the contemporary centre for poetic research at the University of London and a full-time employee of the British Museum. See www.sjfowlerpoetry.com.
Colin Herd (http://colin-herd.com) was born in Stirling in 1985 and now lives in Edinburgh. His first chapbook like (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press) and full-ish-length work too ok (BlazeVOX) were both published this year. He regularly reviews fiction for 3:AM Magazine, poetry for Chroma Journal and art for Aesthetica. He edits the magazine and publishing imprint http://anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk. In Summer 2011, he participated in David Berridge and Mirja Koponen's text festival I AM NOT A POET in Edinburgh, with a sound, wall-based and performance piece based around the pop anthology c.d. Now (that's what I call music) 26.