James Davies is a writer whose work can be characterised as being minimalist, conceptual and systems-based.  His poetry includes stack, Plants, Forty-Four Poems and a Volta, A Dog, Snow, Rocks, and Acronyms. He is also the author of two novels - The Wood Pigeons & When Two Are in Love or As I Came To Behind Frank's Transporter (written in collaboration with Philip Terry), as well as the short stories The Ten Superstrata of Stockport J. Middleton & Changing Piece. In addition to being the editor of if p then q, between 2008-2018 he was the co-organiser of The Other Room reading series & resources website in Manchester. He also is the sometime maker of video art and in 2017-18 was Poet in Residence at The University of Surrey.