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Episode 96: Hem Press

November 26, 2022 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on 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 92, Season 7 Opener with Paul Hawkins of Hesterglock Press

August 6, 2022 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on Episode 92, Season 7 Opener with Paul Hawkins of Hesterglock Press

https://hesterglock.net/ https://www.instagram.com/hesterglock/ Paul Hawkins Each What Studio Recorded on August 2, 2022 Paul and I discuss his background as poet, publisher, visual artist, member of bands, protestor, squatter, refuse collector, office worker, builder, labourer, recovering drug addict, person with borderline personality disorder, survivor and how these different experiences molded him and Hesterglock Press. https://hesterglock.net/Sarer-ScotthorneI ask…

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Episode 90: Broken Sleep Books

May 29, 2022 eleanor Season 6 Comments Off on 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 67: Gary Barwin

October 18, 2020 eleanor Season 5 Comments Off on Episode 67: Gary Barwin

The Small Machine Talks Interviews Gary Barwin Episode 66 Recorded on October 15, 2020 http://serifofnottingham.blogspot.com/ Latest visual poetry book: Ampers&thropocene (Penteract Press) https://penteractpress.com/store/ampersampthropocene-gary-barwin Gary’s interview on the Penteract Press podcast https://penteractpress.com/p-p-p/2020/8/26/episode-14-gary-barwin-ampersampthropocene-launch We have a fascinating and inspiring conversation about visual poetry, language and text, its interaction with the world. We discuss his videos, process, the…

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Episode 66: Richard Capener, editor of the Babel Tower Notice Board

October 2, 2020 eleanor Season 5 Comments Off on Episode 66: Richard Capener, editor of the Babel Tower Notice Board

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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