Recorded on Nov 29, 2021 Visit Coven Editions https://www.coveneditions.com/ and buy chapbooks. We discuss the beginnings of Coven Editions, the collaboration between the founders, Emilia Morgan and Stephanie Meloche. We discuss individual chapbooks, broadsides and the online magazine, deathcap. We share our love for handmade chapbooks, paper and all things small press. Emilia and Stephanie…
Read MoreCaseroom Press http://the-case.co.uk/ The Typographic Dante: to hell and back with Barrie Tullett’s stunning visual project The Caseroom Press Barrie Tullett is a freelance graphic designer and senior lecturer and programme leader at Lincoln School of Art & Design. He grew up in Walthamstow, East London and studied at St Martin’s School of Art and…
Read MoreThe Small Machine Talks to Concetta Principe, Episode 80, Recorded on Thursday, September 30, 2021 Stars Need Counting – Essays on Suicide (Gordon Hill Press, 2021) This Real, Pedlar Press, 2017 – a review by Michael Dennis CW: In this episode, we discuss suicide. If you or anyone you know is contemplating suicide, please reach…
Read MoreThe Small Machine Talksc Episode 79 with Jennifer Mulligan Recorded on Thursday, August 26, 2021 Jennifer Mulligan Digital Arts Resource Centre (formerly SAW Video) Digi60, Ottawa’s Professional Development Festival for New & Emerging Filmmakers I chat with local filmmaker Jennifer Mulligan about her start in film, the various roles she’s had. We discuss the importance…
Read MoreThe Small Machine Talks, Season 6 – Season Opener Episode 78 – Lisa Richter Recorded on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 11 a.m. Lisa Richter http://www.lisarichter.org/ Nautilus and Bone (Frontenac House, 2020) Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017): out of print, please contact the author for a copy. I had the pleasure of speaking…
Read MoreThe Small Machine Talks, Episode 77 with Dominik Parisien Recorded on Thursday, June 24 Side Effects May Include Strangers (McGill-Queens University Press, 2020) We, Old Young Ones (Frog Hollow Press, 2019) We discuss our friendship, which began in 2008/2009 through U of Ottawa’s Cafe Nostalgica reading series, the New Stalgica run by Sean Moreland. Dominik…
Read MoreRasiqra 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 Morerecorded on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 via Zoom Jennifer K Dick is an author, translator, readings curator & assistant professor of American Literature at the Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France. Her previous books include Circuits & Fluorescence. That Which I Touch Has No Name is appearing in 2020 from Eyewear Publishing, London. Her chapbook,…
Read MoreRecorded on Sunday, January 10, 2021 Conor Mc Donnell is a physician & poet. He has published two chapbooks, The Book of Retaliations (Anstruther Press), and, Safe Spaces (Frog Hollow Press). He received Honourable Mention for The Fiddlehead’s 2018 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the RawArtReview 2019 Charles Bukowski Prize, and was runner-up…
Read MoreFor a few years, I’ve been wanting to do an episode on how music is poetry, the idea that music contains poetic elements. My friend and brilliant musician, Subhraj Singh kindly agreed to have a discussion with me on the subject. In this episode we talk about various songs. For a few years, Subhraj and…
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