visual poetry

Episode 108: Barrie Tullett

Recorded on August 24, 2023 The Case Room Press: http://the-case.co.uk/ Barrie Tullett on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barrietullett/ The Small Machine Talks to Barrie Tullett, October 2021 As part of this year’s extra-literary thread, I speak with Barrie Tullet for the second time on the show. We discuss his various design, typography, letterpress, letraset, 3D printing work. The…

Read More

Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

Recorded on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 James Knight: https://thebirdking.com/category/visual-poetry/ https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/james-knight steel incisors: https://www.steelincisors.com/ James is on the show by way of thanks for steel incisors’ support of the AngelHousePress Caring Imagination crowd funding campaign as a donator of publications from steel incisors. We speak about poetry as a provocation and performance, visual poetry, hierarchies, the…

Read More

Episode 103: Shloka Shankar

The Small Machine Talks Episode 103 with Shloka Shankar recorded on Friday, May 12, 2023 One of the most interesting things about the episode was how Shloka engages with the found poetry and Japanese short form poetry communities, especially for writing prompts. LIsten to the episode to hear various ways in which you can engage…

Read More

Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

Thursday, February 23, 2023 http://www.johannadrucker.net/ https://johannadrucker.substack.com/ Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) In our continued thread of extra-literary / page-adjacent topics, I speak to writer, scholar and artist Johanna Drucker about the origins of the alphabet which she wrote about in her latest book,…

Read More

Episode 92, Season 7 Opener with Paul Hawkins of Hesterglock Press

https://hesterglock.net/ https://www.instagram.com/hesterglock/ Paul Hawkins Each What Studio Recorded on August 2, 2022 Paul and I discuss his background as poet, publisher, visual artist, member of bands, protestor, squatter, refuse collector, office worker, builder, labourer, recovering drug addict, person with borderline personality disorder, survivor and how these different experiences molded him and Hesterglock Press. https://hesterglock.net/Sarer-ScotthorneI ask…

Read More

Episode 91: Knife Fork Book

Recorded on Thursday, June 23, 2022 In this episode of our ongoing series of talks with publishers of small presses, I speak with Kirby of Knife Fork Book about their poetic origins, both the press and the bookstore in Toronto, their publications and plans, including the inaugural FERTILE 2022, a festival of new and inventive…

Read More

Episode 89 – The Blasted Tree

recorded on Thursday, April 21 http://www.theblastedtree.com/ https://theblastedtree.bandcamp.com/ I speak with Kyle Flemmer of the Blasted Tree about the inspiration for the press, its beginnings in 2014, how it works, who he has published, and what’s in store for the future. We talked about falling in love with chapbooks. I suggest Kyle could be a superhero…

Read More

Episode 88: Timglaset Editions

Recorded on Monday, March 28, 2022. https://www.timglaset.com/ I spoke to Joakim Norling, the publisher of Timglaset Editions of Sweden. We learn about the evolution of the press from its beginnings as a fanzine to a publisher of books and other visual poetry publications from broadsides to chapbooks. Joakim discusses the relationship between his early love…

Read More

Episode 83: Kristine Snodgrass

The Small Machine Talks Episode 83 – Kristine Snodgrass, WAAVe Gallery Recorded on December 22 , 2021 Kristine Snodgrass: https://www.kristinesnodgrass.com/ Hysterical Books: https://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/waave-global-gallery Anhinga Press: http://www.anhingapress.org/ We discuss the recently published Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets (WAAVe) Global Gallery anthology published by Hysterical Books in 2021. We start with finding out more about Kristine….

Read More

Episode 76 – Rasiqra Revulva

Rasiqra Revulva is a queer femme writer, multimedia artist, editor, musician, performer and SciComm advocate. She is an editor of the climate crisis anthology Watch Your Head: A Call to Action, and one half of the experimental electronic duo The Databats (Slice Records, Melbourne; Toronto). She has published two chapbooks of glitch-illustrated poetry: Cephalopography (words(on)pages press, 2016) and If You…

Read More