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Episode 102: Sarah Bodman

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’…

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Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

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,…

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Episode 96: Hem Press

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…

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Episode 94: Vicki Ziegler

Vicki 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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Episode 90: Broken Sleep Books

https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/ I speak with Aaron Kent, the publisher of UK’s Broken Sleep Books, in our ongoing conversation with small presses. Aaron talks about the name of the press and also its tag line: lay out your unrest. which comes from J. H. Prynne’s Smaller Than the Radius of the Planet, the White Stones (Grosseteste Press,…

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Episode 87: Gap Riot Press

The Small Machine Talks Episode 87: Gap Riot Press recorded on Thursday, February 24, 2022, https://www.gapriotpress.com/ Season 7 Launch Party Podcast Interviews Dani Spinosa Leavings by Kate Siklosi (Timglaset Editions) We talk about the origins of the press, Dani and Kate’s friendship, the joys of making chapbooks, friendships, gaps in teeth, collaborating with authors, anarchy…

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Episode 86: Riverbed Reading Series

Recorded on January 22, 2022 nina jane drystek Ellen Chang-Richardson Riverbed Reading Series Fundraiser I speak with nina jane drystek and Ellen Chang-Richardson of the Riverbed Reading Series. I catch up with them about how they are doing now and their current creative work. There are some great scoops about forthcoming publications. Coven Editions Gap…

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