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Episode 100: Christine McNair

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…

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Episode 98: Karenjit Sandhu

The Small Machine Talks to Karenjit Sandhu Episode 98, Recorded on Thursday, January 26, 2023 https://linktr.ee/k_ren_s_ndhu Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press, 2022) https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/karenjit-sandhu-the-irritating-archive I speak with writer, researcher, artist, Karenjit Sandhu about her work, Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive, published by UK’s Guillemot Press in 2022. A response to “Beauty is…

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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 64: Interview with Sachiko Murakami

Recorded on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 via Zoom Sachiko Murakami is the author of four collections of poetry. Her first collection, The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has also created many collaborative digital poetry projects, most notably Project Rebuild, a companion…

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Episode 49: Interview with Jason Christie

The Small Machine Talks with a.m. kozak and Amanda Earl Episode 49 – Interview with Jason Christie With humour, humility, intelligence and hope, Jason shares his thoughts on his book, poetry, chaos as creativity generator, nature, technology and the Monster at the End of This Book. We talk about Jason’s latest book, Cursed Objects (Coach…

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