The Other Room
The Other Room celebrates its second birthday! Readers: Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding, Matthew Welton Wednesday 7th April, 7.00 pm The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY. Admission is free. Ian Davidson's poetry is gathered in two collections from Shearsman, as well as chapbooks from Spectacular Diseases, West House Books and Oystercatcher. His critical volume Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry was published by Palgrave in 2007. Zoë Skoulding is a poet, writer, musician, performer, and also a lecturer in creative writing. Since 1994 she has edited the poetry magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively. Zoë is editor of Poetry Wales and currently holds an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (2007-2012) in Bangor's School of English, where she is researching poetry, gender and city space. Matthew Welton received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew (Carcanet