114 episodes
The Small Machine Talks The Small Machine Talks
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The Small Machine Talks is a monthly conversation that explores the poetry scene of Central Canada and beyond. Its hosts are Ottawa poets, Amanda Earl and a.m. kozak. The podcast features interviews with poets, publishers, and literary event organizers, discussions of recent and upcoming poetry events, calls for submission, talks on poetics, recent issues of online and print journals, books and chapbooks and sometime in the future, topics of interest to writers and readers of poetry. The podcast is part of AngelHousePress, a Canadian micropress that publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels in the form of chapbooks, two online magazines, a transgressive prose imprint, DevilHouse, and an essay series.
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Episode 112 Poetic Elements of Fiction with Frances Boyle
Ottawa poet and fiction writer, Frances Boyle and I discuss the poetry of favourite novels and read excerpts from the novels. This is the fourth instalment of a thread that began in 2020 in which I invite a guest to discuss the poetic elements of a genre or type of creative work that is not classified as poetry. In 2020, I discussed the poetry of music with Subhraj Singh, in 2021, the poetry of film with Jennifer Mulligan and in 2022 the poetry of photography with Charles Earl.
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Episode 111 - Mudlarking with Ariel Gord
Ariel is on the podcast as part of the thread we’ve been having this year: off-page, extra literary, which has included discussions of artists’ books with Barrie Tullett and Sarah Bodman, recording studios with Gareth Auden-Hole, Pakistani folklore with Nimra and Manahil Bandukwala, the alphabet with Johanna Drucker, and book conservation with Christine McNair. This is the last episode on this thread.
In this episode, I speak with Ariel about her practice of mudlarking. We read together from her collaborative poetry book with Brenda Schmidt, Siteseeing. -
SMT 110: Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Christine McNair
On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 I spoke with Christine McNair and Elee Kraljii Gardiner about writing into health trauma. All 3 of us have written of our personal health traumas and ongoing experiences.
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SMT 109: Dennis Cooley
The Small Machine Talks Episode 109: Dennis Cooley
recorded on September 28, 2023 1pm CST; 2pm EST
body works, University of Calgary Press, 2023: -
SMT 108 - Barrie Tullett
Recorded on August 24, 2023
I speak for the 2nd time on the show with Barrie Tullett, Senior Lecturer – University of Lincoln. Freelance Graphic Designer. Co-founder of The Caseroom Press. Author of Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology. -
SMT 107 Nimra and Manahil Bandukwala
recorded on Thursday, July 27, 2023
I talk to artists and writers Manahil and Nimra Bandukwala about their project to share the folkore of Pakistan through art, poetry and storytelling