Dear All<br><br>Please find news of next week’s Other Room event in Leeds. We’ve also attached a press release and flier. Hope to see you there!<br><br>All best wishes<br>James, Tom and Scott<br><br>THE OTHER ROOM PRESENTS<br>
<br>HAZEL SMITH<br>RYAN ORMONDE<br>CHRIS MCCABE<br>TOM JENKS<br><br>Leeds Gallery (NOT Leeds Art Gallery), Munro House, York Street, Leeds LS9 8AG<br>Thursday July 19, 2012 from 7:00pm, FREE <br><br>Hazel Smith is active in the areas of poetry, performance and new media. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines and in literary, musical and multimedia anthologies. She has published three volumes of poetry. She has also, with Roger Dean, made three CDs of her performance work and they have co-authored numerous new media works. She has collaborated with visual artist Sieglinde Karl. Their joint work has been exhibited in many art galleries in Australia and overseas. <br>
<br>Ryan Ormonde is one of the four poet performers who collaborate as &#39;press free press&#39; in various live publishing and writing projects; the others are Becky Cremin, Sejal Chad and Karen Sandhu. Alone, Ryan is interested in finding an intuitive writing method that is evidence of reading two or more different texts, or that is the written outcome of making a text from criteria suggested while sitting somewhere outside, or from walking around. Ryan has a chapbook and a book-book published with The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The book-book is called &#39;The of of the film of the book and the of of the book of the film&#39;. Ryan is the longest serving member of staff at a certain West End cinema. See his websites at <a href="http://poeticpracticejournal.blogspot.co.uk/">http://poeticpracticejournal.blogspot.co.uk/</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.pressfreepress.com/">http://www.pressfreepress.com/</a><br>
<br>Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His published books are The Hutton Inquiry (Salt, 2005), Zeppelins (Salt, 2008) and a play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf (Penned in the Margins, 2010). He has also recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive. His third full collection, THE RESTRUCTURE, was published in May 2012. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London.<br>
<br>Tom Jenks has two collections, A Priori and *, published by if p then q (<a href="http://ifpthenq.co.uk">http://ifpthenq.co.uk</a>).His work has appeared in a range o fdigital and print publications including Department magazine, onedit, Cleaves, Blackbox Manifold and the 18s anthology. He organises the avant objects imprint zimZalla (<a href="http://zimzalla.co.uk">http://zimzalla.co.uk</a>)and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website (<a href="http://otherroom.org">http://otherroom.org</a>). ‘Gnomes’, a collaboration with Chris McCabe, was published by The Red Ceilings Press in 2011.<br>
<br>-- <br><a href="http://www.otherroom.org">www.otherroom.org</a><br>