Pearl Pirie is a queer concussed writer living in rural Quebec. Her poetry collection, the pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015) won the Archibald Lampman Award. Her manuscript Thirsts won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was published in 2011. Her first trade collection was been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010). Her poems have…
Read MoreRecorded on Sunday, November 15, 2020 Sacha Archer lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife and two daughters. He is the editor of Simulacrum Press. Archer’s latest chapbooks are Lines of Sight (nOIR:Z, 2020) and Houses (no press, 2020). Forthcoming chapbooks include Models (Simulacrum Press) and Framing Poems (Timglaset). His concrete poetry has been exhibited…
Read MoreThe Small Machine Talks to Dennis Cooley Recorded on November 12, 2020 Dennis Cooley was raised near Estevan, Saskatchewan. Retired English professor from the University of Manitoba, he resides in Winnipeg. He is a founding editor of Turnstone Press. He has three new books out this year: The Bestiary and Cold-Press Moon from Turnstone Press…
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On Wednesday September 29, 2020 I conducted my first overseas interview with Richard Capener, the editor of a new online literary journal, the Babel Tower Notice Board, which began only just over a month ago and is already garnering a lot of interest and attention for, among other things, its focus on play, pleasure, descent,…
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James Lindsay is the author of Double Self-Portrait, Our Inland Sea and the chapbook Ekphrasis! Ekphrasis!. He is the co-founder of Pleasence Records and works in book publishing. “an interview is a kind of intimacy that must fail in order to be near to real.” from Dog Park James reads the title poem, “Double Self-Portrait”…
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Recorded on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 via Zoom Sachiko Murakami is the author of four collections of poetry. Her first collection, The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has also created many collaborative digital poetry projects, most notably Project Rebuild, a companion…
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The Small Machine Talks – Episode 63 Amanda Earl interviews Dani Spinosa Recorded on July 29, 2020 via Zoom Dani Spinosa is a poet of digital and print media, an on-again-off-again precarious professor, the managing editor of Electronic Literature Directory, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, and the author of Anarchists in the Academy:…
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