The Small Machine Talks, Episode 102 with Sarah Bodman UWE Bristol Book Arts Newsletters by Sarah Bodman http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ Artists’ Book Year Books This is another episode in the extra-literary, page-adjacent thread of 2023. I speak to artist and researcher Sarah Bodman about artist books and her work. We discuss the definition and examples of artists’…
Read MoreRecorded on Monday, April 10, 2023 Turret House Films (YouTube channel) Instagram: turrethousepressmtl Turret House Press FaceBook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5152168791515671 James Hawes : Twitter https://twitter.com/4jayman?lang=en Breakfast with A Heron, Mansfield Press Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology edited by Priscila Uppal and Meaghan Strimas As a thank you to the small presses, magazines and artists that supported…
Read MoreThursday, 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 MoreThe Small Machine Talks to Karenjit Sandhu Episode 98, Recorded on Thursday, January 26, 2023 https://linktr.ee/k_ren_s_ndhu Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press, 2022) https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/karenjit-sandhu-the-irritating-archive I speak with writer, researcher, artist, Karenjit Sandhu about her work, Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive, published by UK’s Guillemot Press in 2022. A response to “Beauty is…
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Recorded on December 25, 2022 Intro – the poetics series. I started this series within the podcast because it seems to me that poetry exists everywhere in some form or another. Engaging with it in different disciplines and media helps to gain insight into poetry itself. What makes a poem poetry is an ongoing question…
Read MoreRecorded on Thursday, October 27, 2022 https://www.ethelzine.com/ I speak with Sara Lefsyk, Ethel’s publisher. We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. We discuss our tea. Sara: cinnamon spice; me – Irish Breakfast. We talk about the press’s beginnings and Sara’s process of sewing and binding the work and…
Read MoreVicki Ziegler Silent Book Club Recorded on Thursday, September 29, 2022 I speak to Vicki Ziegler, organizer of a silent book club in Toronto and #todayspoem on Instagram and Twitter. We start with a conversation about tea. World of Tea. I show my mug, “Write Like a Motherfucker” from Rumpus.net. We discuss our love of…
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