Phil Davenport & Hester Reeve (pictured) are guests at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton on Mon Feb 12th 2007 at 7.30pm. This event is part of a series of Poetry and Prose Readings promoted by the University Of Bolton in conjunction with the Theatre.

Philip Davenport is a visual poet who makes poems out of shopping lists, fashion magazines, porn. His first collection Imaginary Missing People was published by the experimental press Writers Forum. His Vogue Divine series was billposted throughout Manchester in 2002. In 2004 Heart Shape Pornography series was handwritten onto hundreds of apples and exhibited at the Walker , Liverpool as part of the Biennial. In 2005, he helped curate the Bury Text Festival of poetry and text art. During this time he made a series of soundpieces from overheard conversations.

HRH is the conceptual persona of UK artist Hester Reeve. She is a performance artist who encompasses live art, philosophy, drawing and photography