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.
Dec 31, 2023
1 hr
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.
Dec 3, 2023
59 min
The Small Machine Talks to Klara Du Plessis about Hell Light Flesh, her new poetry collection with Palimpsest Press
Oct 31, 2020
1 hr 6 min
On Wednesday September 29, I conduct my first overseas interview with Richard Capener, the editor of a new online literary journal, the Babel Tower Notice Board, which began only a month ago and is garnering a lot of interest and attention for its focus on play, pleasure and revelry.
Oct 2, 2020
1 hr 16 min
The Small Machine Talks Interviews James Lindsay
Episode 65, Sunday, September 27, 2020. 3pm
James Lindsay is the author of Double Self-Portrait, Our Inland Sea and the chapbook Ekphrasis! Ekphrasis!. He is the co-founder of Pleasence Records and works in book publishing.
We discuss Double Self-Portrait, doubling, cicadas, bees, community and more.
Sep 28, 2020
1 hr 7 min
Recorded on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 via Zoom. We talk about Sachiko's new poetry collection Render (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020)
Aug 30, 2020
46 min
The Small Machine Talks – Episode 63
Amanda Earl interviews Dani Spinosa
Recorded on July 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Jul 30, 2020
45 min
THE SMALL MACHINE TALKS 5th season opener
Hosted by Amanda Earl and a.m. kozak
EPISODE 62 - INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN MILLION
Recorded on Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 3pm over Zoom
Jul 20, 2020
1 hr 30 min
The final of the three episodes featuring readers from Experiment-O: Volodymyr Bilyk, Joel Chace, Marco Giovanele, Pearl Pirie, James Sanders, and Steve Venright. A discussion of one of the contributors in each issue and a teaser from the forthcoming issue 12
Jun 25, 2020
25 min