Season 7 – The Small Machine Talks

Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

June 18, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

Episode 104: David Naimon, Between the Covers

June 4, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

Recorded on May 30, 2023 Between the Covers Ways to Support Between the Covers I had the pleasure of speaking with David Naimon of Between the Covers, my favourite and most-listened to podcast. In this episode we discuss David’s journey from his career as a health professional to hosting the podcast. He has said that…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 104 - David Naimon, Between the Covers

Episode 103: Shloka Shankar

May 13, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 103 - Shloka Shankar

Episode 102: Sarah Bodman

May 7, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

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’…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 102 - Sarah Bodman

Episode 101: James Hawes, Turret House Press

April 11, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

Recorded 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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 101 - James Hawes, Turret House Press

Episode 100: Christine McNair

March 19, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

Recorded on Friday, March 17, 2023 I speak to Christine McNair: book doctor, writer and dear friend as part of the page-adjacent, extra-literary thread this year. We are celebrating our 100th episode of the Small Machine Talks. She tells us she lives a life of books. We learn about her job as a book conservator…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 100 with Christine McNair

Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

February 25, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

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,…

The Small Machine Talks · Johanna Drucker, Episode 99

Episode 97: The Poetics of Photography with Charles Earl

December 25, 2022 eleanor Comments Off

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…

The Small Machine Talks · The Poetics of Photography with Charles Earl

Episode 96: Hem Press

November 26, 2022 eleanor Comments Off

The Small Machine Talks Episode 96 Hem Press with Richard Capener Recorded on Thursday, November 24, 2022, release day for James Knight’s Cosmic Horror and Josh Allsop’s purge fluid In this final episode in the small press series of 2022, I speak with Richard, the editor of Hem Press about its beginnings, influences, the work…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 96 - Hem Press

Episode 95: Ethel Zine and Micropress

October 30, 2022 eleanor Comments Off

Recorded 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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 95: Ethel Zine and Micropress

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