THE CARING IMAGINATION

Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

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…

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Episode 95: Ethel Zine and Micropress

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…

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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 85: Forthcoming from AngelHousePress in 2022

The Small Talks Episode 85: Forthcoming from AngelHousePress Recorded on January 3, 2022 Happy new year, dear listeners. I thought I’d start 2022 with a conversation with the fallen angel of AngelHousePress, in other words, with me about what I’m cooking up for the year’s activities. And since I’m the only one talking, it’s not…

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