The Other Room

Contact: Tom, James, Scott (otherroomeditors@googlemail.com)

THE OTHER ROOM
celebrates its fourth birthday with:

ELÉNA RIVERA
PAULA CLAIRE (DVD)
BECKY CREMIN
TONY LOPEZ
plus the launch of The Other Room Anthology 2011-12

Admission free. You can book a ticket via Eventbrite here <http://otherroom31.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C> . This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.

Please see below for profiles of our performers – previews will be posted on our website beginning with Tony Lopez today. See www.otherroom.org <http://www.otherroom.org/>

We hope to see you there!

Tom, James and Scott

Eléna Rivera is the author of The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011), Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL e-editions, 2010), and Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006). Her chapbook On the Nature of Position and Tone is forthcoming from Fields Press. She recently won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation for Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf Press, 2011) and is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath was published by Burning Deck Press in 2009. See: http://www.elenarivera.net/

Paula Claire is celebrating 50 years of sustained creation of innovative poetry, with over 40 years of interactive performances in the UK and abroad in schools, colleges and arts centres; gardens, fields, galleries and famous buildings; festivals in London, Cheltenham, Berlin, Oporto, Toronto, New York and Houston. She worked with Bob Cobbing in the group Konkrete Canticle for over 20 years. Her sets of documentary photos and use of computer graphics illustrating major poems since the 1990s have resulted in nearly 90 artists books, some unique, some Limited Editions/Prints. Since the 1970s she has exchanged her publications with exponents worldwide to form the Paula Claire Archive of Sound and Visual Poetry, now comprising over 5,000 items. See: http://paulaclaire.com/

Becky Cremin hails from Ireland by way of the world and currently lives in London. She has an MA in Poetic Practice from Royal Holloway University of London, and is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD ‘Investigating Contemporary Performance Through Poetic Practices’. She works in process and draws on traditions of live art, Fluxus, performance writing and site-specific work to construct a hybrid practice which uses language as an object to expose, to investigate, to locate. She is a founding member of the poetic collective PRESS FREE PRESS, she regularly performs in London and beyond and her chapbook Cutting Movement was published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. Examples of her work can be found at: http://www.performatext.org <http://www.performatext.org/> .

Tony Lopez is an English poet with an international reputation for innovation in found text. His latest books are Only More So (University of New Orleans Press, 2011; Shearsman 2012) and a new edition of his best-known long poem False Memory (Shearsman, 2012). His critical writings are collected in Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt) and The Poetry of W.S. Graham (Edinburgh University Press). He taught for many years at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry (2000) and Emeritus Professor (2009). He now works on public art incorporating text. He is married with two grown up children and lives in Exmouth in Devon. See: http://www.tonylopez.org.uk/

Entry: Free

Time: 7:00pm