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Episode 110: Writing into Health Trauma with Christine McNair and Elee Kraljii Gardiner

October 29, 2023 eleanor Comments Off

I speak with Christine and Elee about our writing on our personal health traumas and the intersection of art and health. We also read from our works: Elee – Trauma Head; Christine – Toxemia and me – Beast Body Epic. Amanda: AngelHousePress.com; AmandaEarl.com Elee: https://eleekg.com/ Preeclampsia Foundation Canada: https://www.preeclampsiacanada.ca/ Virtual launch of Beast Body Epic…

The Small Machine Talks · SMT 110: Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Christine McNair

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 91: Knife Fork Book

June 25, 2022 eleanor Comments Off

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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 91: Knife Fork Book

Episode 89 – The Blasted Tree

April 23, 2022 eleanor Comments Off

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…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 89 The Blasted Tree

Episode 68: Interview with Klara Du Plessis

October 31, 2020 eleanor Comments Off

recorded on October 29, 2020 via Zoom Klara du Plessis is a poet, critic, and literary curator. Her debut collection of multilingual long poems, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and garnered much critical acclaim. She lives in Montreal and Cape Town. In her second…

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The Small Machine Talks Episode 57 Trees, Rain, Bicycles, Gardens, Wandering, Spring!

April 29, 2020 eleanor Comments Off

I open the episode with a reading of an excerpt from Samuel Beckett, Watt (Olympia Press, 1953). Good morning and welcome to the Small Machine Talks Episdoe 57. I’m alone again, recording the episode solo due to Covid-19’s physical distancing requirement. At this time, I find myself seeking out some of my favourite poems about…

The Small Machine Talks · Episode 57: Trees, Rain, Bicycles, Gardens, Wandering, Spring!

The Small Machine Talks Episode 52 Book Club with a.m. kozak, Fiona Mitchell, Helen Robertson, Amanda Earl and Hiram Larew,

November 19, 2019 eleanor Comments Off

The Small Machine Talks Episode 52 Book Club with a.m. kozak, Fiona Mitchell, Helen Robertson, Amanda Earl and Hirem Laraw, recorded on Sunday, November 17, 2019 Fiona Ann Mitchell is a poet from Ottawa, Ontario and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. Her work can be found in Freefall, The…