URL SONATA
By SPAM Press
URL SONATASep 16, 2020
Lunch Club #15: Bad Moon with Jac Common
What happens when you rhyme apocalypses with irises? With Jac Common in conversation with Ian Macartney and Maria Sledmere, we take a ride on the moody tributaries of anthropocene lyric to encounter Samantha Walton’s Bad Moon: a 2020 SPAMphlet which explores multiple ends of the world through its critical poethics.
Note:
This podcast is haunted by issues with audio due to the boat wifi being intercepted by some bad omens. Nae fear, it’s still listenable! And we did our best to navigate the channelz :’)
Jac Common is a writer and recovering scientist from Nottingham, UK. Their poetic and critical work has been published and is forthcoming boh online and in print. Their debut pamphlet, Wetbulb, is coming out with Osmosis in 2023/24. They were also shortlisted for the 2022 Magma Pamphlet competition, which was nice. They are currently driving a boat between cities at walking pace in the wrong direction.
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/samantha-walton/
Buy Bad Moon for £5 here:
https://www.spamzine.co.uk/product-page/bad-moon-samantha-walton
Editing and introduction: Ian Macartney
Further reading:
Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (1929).
Galina Rymbu, Life in Space (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020, trans. Joan Brooks).
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) public domain.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii.I
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon in An Oresteia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, trans. Anne Carson)
Derek Jarman, Modern Nature (London: Vintage, 1992).
Daisy Hildyard, The Second Body (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017).
Fred Carter (2022) ‘`Crude Oil Shaping Forms of Writing`: Galina Rymbu’s Life in Space, Ecoes, 4, 56-65.
Esther Leslie, Fog, Froth and Foam: Insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres in Electric Brine (Berlin: Archive Books, 2021, ed. Jennifer Teets).
Sophie Lewis (2017) ‘Amniotechnics’, The New Enquiry, link
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (New York, London: Duke University Press, 2021).
Stacey Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Lauren Berlant (2007) ‘Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)’, Critical Inquiry, 33(4), 754–780.
Futher noise:
Funeralopolis - Electric Wizard
Copy of A - Nine Inch Nails
Sulfur - Slipknot
THE PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA - Lingua Ignota
Pet - The Perfect Circle
Welcome To My Island - Caroline Polachek
Save The Dream, Kill Your Friends - Pupil Slicer
Autoimmune - Pharmakon
Land Disasters - Blanck Mass
Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
Official Bad Moon playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mgmUCgMuf2VEknRfFHfpf?si=c933c4c871f04961
URL Sonata #26: Cocoa and Nothing at Hopscotch Reading Room
In this episode, we time travel back to 27th May 2023 and find ourselves in Berlin for the German launch of Cocoa and Nothing. There are four readings plus bonus raffle outro.
About the readers:
Max Parnell is a writer and sound artist residing in the urban marshlands outside the ring. Recent works include the cli-fi novel, Type I, and rice the water, a bimonthly radio show on weather patterns, shifting landcapes and sonic ecologies.
Sylee Gore is a poet and artist. Her zuihitsu essay, “On Photopoetry,” was recently published in Bat City Review.
Colin Herd is the author of too ok (blazeVOX, 2011), Glovebox (Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2013), Oberwilding – with SJ Fowler, (ACF, 2015), Swamp Kiss (Red Ceilings Press, 2018), Click and Collect (Boiler House Press, 2017), and You Name It (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2019). He has also collaborated on the artist books blots with Susan Wilson (2013) and Press Back Up Help (2013) with Cat Outram. His poem ‘rug design’ was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2014.
Maria Sledmere is an artist and poet living in Glasgow. She is the author of Cocoa and Nothing with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023), Visions & Feed (HVTN Press, 2022), String Feeling (Erotoplasty Editions, 2022), The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and other things. A collection of fiction and oneiric memoir, An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun, was published by Hem Press in June 2023. She is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a member of A+E Collective.
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Produced by Max Parnell
With thanks to Hopscotch! ❤️ follow them on Instagram @hopscotchreadingroom
You can order Cocoa and Nothing at spamzine.co.uk/shop - it comes as an ebook, audiobook or print book.
URL Sonata #25: Cocoa and Nothing
Readings of gooey-gorgeous sweet sugar-high poems from Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere's collaborative book, Cocoa and Nothing 🍫
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Whole-not
by Ian Macartney
after Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd’s “Cocoa and Nothing”
hullo.
have you ever [colin] heard
of Marathon bars?
they used
to be Marathon
and now they are Snickers
because it’s sort
of like you laugh
at them a lot,
but in a sneaky way.
i just read
on the greatest wikipedia page
of all time
that Snickers made 3 billion dollars in 2012,
the year of apocalypse,
which is crazy,
something that could kill me
also containing
a number
that makes even
millionaires sugar-sick.
i am allergic to all nuts,
but peanuts especially,
which is why snickers
would kill me,
that and their 3 billion dollars
which can probably be spent
on, like,
arms dealing or whatever.
that or milk.
Marathon deceased
as a name
in 1990
which is funny
because Maria Sledmere
probably loves that decade
and she is here.
and then Colin Herd circulates
in marathons,
18 times around the Meadows
for an Edinburgh variant
for example,
and mother of chocolately god,
he is also here.
Kirsty Dunlop
is a Snickers unto herself
in all her galaxies of taste
and jubilant crunch
and engaging questions.
she hosts.
Snickers does nothing
but ask questions
like, how
the hell did i just make 3 billion dollars?!
anyway, Snickers
don’t come up once
in this episode
of URL Sonata,
the SPAM Press podcast,
because the German
chocolate Ritter Sport
has to magic the moment,
a chocolate i
(Ian Macartney, hi)
discovered only
from the book
Cocoa and Nothing,
which just got published by SPAM,
because i am allergic
to nuts in a way
that dismisses
so many delicious experiences
when i see shiny wrappers
and o, hey, look,
Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd
confectioned that book
and they are here.
enjoy
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Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere's Cocoa and Nothing
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Intro/Outro: Ian Macartney
Production: Ian Macartney
Music: adios nervosa
Brilliant Vibrating Interface #3: Interview with Parel Joy
Ian Macartney speaks to Parel Joy, whose pamphlet “The Queen of Cups and other poems” was part of SPAM’s Season 6. But Parel’s practice also expands to editing the ‘Dyke Love’ zine, launched to a packed crowd in Glasgow’s Bonjour, as well as work with the Amsterdam Library’s queer archive, literary translation, printmaking, and more.
Over a pot of Moroccan tea on a rainy day in Haarlem, just outside of Amsterdam, Ian and Parel discuss lockdown temporality, translation, “eco-queer grindsets”, Aberdeen hauntology, cottagecore, nostalgia, Scottish community online and off, archive, utopia, tarot, and more.
This episode was kindly supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust's Second Life Award.
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The Queen of Cups and other poems
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Intro/Outro: Ian Macartney
Music: Max Parnell
Production: Max Parnell and Ian Macartney
URL Sonata #24: Readings from Poetry! at the University of Glasgow (November 2022)
As we plough through the total grey of 2023's January, let this episode of URL Sonata take you back to a November just gone, recorded/cultivated posey via the University of Glasgow. From cult heroes doing their thing to table-toppers also doing their thing to doctoring to all else glittering and versed, not only does this episode have it all, it then has heaps extra...
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Intro/Outro by Maria Sledmere
Edited by Ian Macartney
Music by adios nervosa
URL Sonata #23: Readings from Season 6 Launch at The Alchemy Experiment (May 2022)
To melt 2022's terminal internal thaw, we're casting ourselves back to early summer for lively poetry of the utmost hot quality from the launch for our Season 6 pamphlets and SPAM004/5 @ The Alchemy Experiment!
This episode features work from Ian Macartney, Nasim Luczaj, River Ellen MacAskil, Dan Power, Ciara Maguire, Ali Graham and Parel Joy. Expect sonnets, Charli XCX lyrics, "sex in revolving doors", deer in tupperware, and more.
Warm yourself with these words during this cold snap. Oops - another icicle melts as we speak!!!
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Intro/Outro: Maria Sledmere
Production: Ian Macartney
Music: adios nervosa
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, consider making a donation by buying us a coffee at Kofi. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #22: Readings from (Late) Summer Bummer at The Doublet (October 2022)
This is a recording from our ‘Summer Bummer’ evening of po-Ems-de-terre at iconic Glasgow pub, The Doublet, back in October. A deluge delayed this event into the autumn, but summer is a socialist state of mind, whatever the weather, so that’s okay.
Expect in these poems weird dreams , homes oceans away, the River Clyde’s posthuman flow, queer decadent Black eulogy, “spinning twinks” and Caroline Polachek as a warehouse worker. Glitches also line the texture of this audio file — fonts change size, poems are screenshotted wrong, Face IDs won’t open in time, etc. These moments are like poems as well.
Featuring Hannah McDonald, Srishti Jain, Hannah George, Isaac Harris, Francis Jones and Ian Macartney.
Two debut readers are captured here, so maybe even moments like this, at the tired end of a tiring year, can let new things jolt up to grow?
Francis Jones' sacrificial fabric
Isaac Harris' The Ghetty Gospels
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Intro/Outro: Ian Macartney
Production: Ian Macartney
Music: adios nervosa
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, consider making a donation by buying us a coffee at Kofi. Thanks for listening!
Brilliant Vibrating Interface #2: Interview with Aischa Daughtery
Welcome back to the luscious envelope of another episode of URL Sonata! We are joined by writer and editor Aischa Daughtery to discuss the arts of queer epistolary in her new anthology, This is How We Love: a collection of love letters, notes, poetry and artwork shared between lesbians across the globe. Aischa talks to SPAM editors and belles-lettrestresses Kirsty and Maria about the real post in post-internet, queer communities and lineages, pandemic intimacies, handwriting, the art of notes, social media, long distance love, editing and producing her wonderful collection - plus loads more.
About the author:
Aischa Daughtery is a Scottish writer and editor based in Glasgow. A recent graduate of the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing MLitt, Aischa’s poetic work has been widely published and her editorial work has received press in publications including The Herald. In 2021, she won the gold Creative Future Writer’s Award for poetry, and she is currently a mentee on the Poetry School's Next Up 2 development scheme. Her first book, This Is How We Love, an anthology of love letters, notes, poetry and artwork shared between lesbians across the globe, came out this year.
This episode was kindly supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust's Second Life Award.
Please visit spamzine.co.uk to find ways of supporting us, including buying a book, some fresh merch or even donating.
Intro: Kirsty Dunlop & Maria Sledmere
Music & Production: Max Parnell
URL Sonata #21: Readings from With Ghosts at Argonaut Books (July 2022)
As winter snaps the sky to dark by 4pm, churning all water to its special kind of glass, here’s an artefact from the summer just past, hazy already — a wee July 15th-shaped gem beset in Leith’s wonderful Argonaut Books.
This is a recording of WITH GHOSTS, a collaborative evening of readings between SPAM and Distribution Coordinator Ian Macartney's small press sincere corkscrew, wherein both outfits launched their respective sets of pamphlets together in a sweltering Edinburgh. An astonishing cornucopia of writers joined in the celebration: Maria Sledmere, fred spoliar, Kathrine Sowerby, Miriam Schülter, Tom Byam Shaw, nicky melville, Jay Gao and Savannah Brown.
From dual-channel solar-odes to ersatz epistolaries, cabbage soup to speculative flash fiction, gates to toxic lakes to “the hottest girl in the world”, this sold-out affair really was something to be cherished. Listen out for the ambient sizzle of poured alcohol, arguments and laughter from Leith Walk’s walkers, and the organic wax/wane of literary voices bandied through the mix.
Maria Sledmere and fred spoliar's Sans Soleil
ncky melville's The Imperative Commands
Savnnah Brown's Closer Baby Closer
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Intro/Outro: Ian Macartney
Production: Ian Macartney
Music: adios nervosa
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, consider making a donation by buying us a coffee at Kofi. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata # 20: Readings from SPAM005
A selection of readings from poems published in our latest peachiest magazine, SPAM005!
As in previous editions of our magazine podcast, we begin with a general vibe check as Mau phones up their fellow editors to get a handle on the seasons, tips on using the magazine for divination and SPAM tattoo ideas.
This issue of the magazine was edited by Mau Baiocco
Artwork: Ian Macartney
Music: Ian Macartney & Max Parnell
Production: Max Parnell
Lunch Club #14: fred spoliar’s With the Boys (SPAM Press, 2021) (featuring guest Dr Alexandra Campbell)
Warm your sweet lil cockles with this episode, recorded at the height of the summer heatwave and during an unspecified time called ‘lunch’. With chief editrix Maria Sledmere and guest Alexandra Campbell in the studio, we discuss admin, telly and more importantly fred spoliar’s 2021 SPAM book With the Boys. From core values to vomiting sunkings, widgets to broccoli, this is a bountiful episode of close reading, real talk and ~strident analysis. We cover qualitative cheerleading, Alex’s adventures in da club, the new trend for HAULING ICE, the future poetics of herogasms, entropic testosterone, millennial whimsy, piss time, the true goth origins of Maria’s poetry career, burning down the oikos house, why the 2000s are trash fire, the value form of lyric, pisces apocalypse, work, bad men, potato heads and so much more. Listen on to find out whether the chilli peppers ever had a climate anthem, and what hell kind of ecopoetics is this!! Let’s glitch (with) the boys!!
Dr Alexandra Campbell is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Environmental Cultures, based in the School of Critical Studies. Before arriving at Glasgow she held previous positions at Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Edinburgh, and Bath Spa University. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow. You can find out more about her work here.
Order a copy of With the Boys here.
Intro: Loll Jung
Production: Max Parnell
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, consider making a donation either by buying us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/spampress or through our webstore https://spamzine.co.uk/shop. Thanks for listening!
Brilliant Vibrating Interface #1: Interview with Ian Macartney
This episode was kindly supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust's Second Life Award.
Production: Max Parnell Introduction: Maria Sledmere Music: Max ParnellURL Sonata #19: Readings from Sans Soleil Launch
Riding the weekend's heatwave, we're bringing you a luminous episode full of sunshine, kazoos, muskrats at feasts and awkward cherubs. This recording was taken on the 23rd June, 2022, at Good Press Glasgow, in celebration of Maria Sledmere and fred spoliar's joint pamphlet, Sans Soleil, published on the summer solstice by Face Press and Mermaid Motel.
You'll hear readings from:
Peter Manson
Daisy Lafarge
Maria Sledmere & fred spoliar
To buy the pamphlet or a poster, head over to Mermaid Motel.
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Artwork type is by Leah Maldano and used with permission.
Intro by Maria Sledmere
Produced by Max Parnell
URL Sonata #18: Readings from SPAM004
URL Sonata #18: Readings from SPAM004 🍑
Welcome to the big peach that is SPAM004! It is so spring to unite some of your favourite poets in a field of glorious virtual plenty. Are we pirate radio or the pistils of a radio flower giving you this lyrical pollen for free?
Our readers in order of appearance:
Ciara Maguire
Peter Manson
Poppy Cockburn
Nicky Melville
Jac Common
Sabeen Chaudhry
Ollie Southall
Dom Hale
Joey Frances
Kaisa Saarinen
Alex Glynne
Anne Lesley Selcer
Lucy Rose Cunningham
Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir
Louis Fabrice Tshimanga
River Ellen MacAskill
Lou Collins
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Intro by Mau Baiocco
Outro & artwork by Maria Sledmere
Sound and production by Max Parnell
Full issue available at spamzine.co.uk/spam004
Donate to SPAM at https://www.spamzine.co.uk/product-page/donate-to-spam
URL Sonata #17: Poetry and AI with Charlotte Geater and Dan Power
In this episode, we delve deep into questions of poetry and artificial intelligence, covering everything from Gerald Manley Hopkins to GPT-3, smart tractors to lyric voice, algorithmic bias to Holly Herndon’s Spawn project. With readings from the authors, reference to prosody, craft and publication, this is a really rich episode. We ask the big questions: what is meaning, what does the internet look like, wtf actually is AI – so you don’t have to!
Dan Power lives in Dundee and is the editor of the visual poetry outfit Trickhouse Press. In 2016 Spam published his first pamphlet ‘PREDICTIVE TEXT POEMS’, and he’s since released ‘more like this’ with If A Leaf Falls, ‘SELECTED DREAMS’ with Steel Incisors and ‘late morning’ with Broken Sleep. Dan is one half of the post-post-vaporwave duo Soulacoaster Tycoon, whose music is now available on Bandcamp.
Charlotte Geater lives in Walthamstow in London and is currently working for Hackney Libraries and the Poetry Society. They won the White Review Poets’ Prize in 2018 and the University of East Anglia New Forms Award in 2021. Their poetry has been published in The White Review, SPAMzine, Hotel, and Strange Horizons. They have published pamphlets with if a leaf falls press, Bad Betty Press, Legitimate Snack and a series of free zines of GPT-2 generated neural net poetry are available at tambourine.itch.io.
InferKit demo: https://inferkit.com.
Charlotte Geater: http://mysteriousobject.co.uk
Dan Power: @therealdanpower
Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Production: Max Parnell
Music: Soulacoaster Tycoon
URL Sonata #16: ‘Sign and Return’ with Josh Widera
In today's conversation, we drift through different entries from Josh's book, covering topics such as cycling in traffic as a form of surfing, the gamification of work, different modalities of emotional labour, Amazon's failed drone delivery service and why bike couriers remain so efficient, couriers as infrastructure, examining their strategies and tactics for controlling their environments, affective economies of driver rage and how though their swerves, surfs and hacks bike couriers throughout the globe are forced to defy either the laws of traffic or the laws of physics.
Josh Widera, who is joining us today from Los Angeles, is a bicycle messenger, writer, and scholar from Bamberg, Germany. He is currently a PhD student in Communication at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, where he researches bicycle messengers as an embodied part of urban information networks and communication technology. In 2021, his first book, Sign and Return, was published with Verlag für Handbücher.
Sound Production: Max Parnell
To purchase Josh’s book, please follow this link to Verlag for Handbücher.
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, please consider donating the price of a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/spampress, or buying directly from our store at spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #15: 'in love in the bin in love' - SPAM at the Peckham Pelican, Nov 2021 (Part 2)
'in love in the bin in love' - where we want to be! (again!)
In this episode, we revisit November 2021 for an absolutely huge reading at the Peckham Pelican in London.
In this second and final part of the episode, you'll hear readings from:
Ed Luker
Jennifer Soong
Both of whom are published in one of our online magazines or as part of our recent Season 5 and concrete pamphlet bundles.
Editing and production by Max Parnell.
Intro by Maria Sledmere.
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, please consider donating the price of a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/spampress, or buying directly from our store at spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #15: 'in love in the bin in love' - SPAM at the Peckham Pelican, Nov 2021 (Part 1)
'in love in the bin in love' - where we want to be!
In this episode, we revisit November 2021 for an absolutely huge reading at the Peckham Pelican in London. Editors Maria Sledmere and Mau Baiocco do an introductory breakdown of the event: from the iconic babes in the audience to the astral chart of the night and how amazing it felt to see everyone afk in 'the dawn of the big poetry readings'. In this first part of the episode, you'll hear readings from:
Nick Ines Ward
Rosa-Francis Jones
Alex George
Felix Bazalgette
Jane Hartshorn
Tom Betteridge
Emma Gomis
All of whom are published in one of our online magazines or as part of our recent Season 5 and concrete pamphlet bundles.
Editing and production by Max Parnell.
If you want to support the work we do at SPAM, please consider donating the price of a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/spampress, or buying directly from our store at spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #14: SEKXPHRASTIKS with Jane Goldman (Part 2)
This bumper, two part conversation with poet and Woolf scholar extraordinaire Jane Goldman is really a deep dive. It was Friday the 13th and a holy trinity of Geminis -- Maria Sledmere, Jane and fellow editor Mau Baiocco -- the vibes were strong.
This conversation celebrates the recent publication of Jane’s debut poetry collection, SEKXPHRASTIKS, released by Dostoyevsky Wannabe. If you head to dostoyevskywannabe.com (that’s Dostoyevsky with a y!) you’ll be able to order it from pretty much anywhere in the world! It’s a rich and scintillating, foamy wonder of poems compiled over several years in response to art, desire, friendship and love, with brilliant cover art from the late artist Caroline McNairn. CAConrad says of the book: ‘Jane Goldman raps from inside our heads, do you get it, do you hear this, it is time to understand these things, these raw-lipped dadas without you-At the same time, her book pulls itself around us, and we get a new feeling about poetry, a subject we thought we knew well. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! WOW RIGHT FROM THE START AND IT JUST GOES GOES GOES!!!’
Jane Goldman, poet and academic, lives in Edinburgh and is Reader in English Literature [Avant-Garde Poetics and Creative Writing] at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the 12 collective of women poets Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies; her pamphlet Border Thoughts (Sufficient Place / Leamington Books, 2014) is ‘a little theatrical box of spectacle and light […] the living underworld of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera translated into raucous girlish post-war wayward ways’ (Lisa Jeschke, Hix Eros 6). SEKXPHRASTIKS (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2021) is her first full length poetry collection. She is also a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf and publishes widely on Woolf, modernism and the avant-garde.
This is part two of a two-part interview.
Production and editing: Max Parnell
Introduction: Mau Baiocco
Episode graphic is adapted from the SEKXPHRASTIKS book cover, which features Caroline McNairn's artwork.
URL Sonata #14: SEKXPHRASTIKS with Jane Goldman (Part 1)
This bumper, two part conversation with poet and Woolf scholar extraordinaire Jane Goldman is really a deep dive. It was Friday the 13th and a holy trinity of Geminis -- Maria Sledmere, Jane and fellow editor Mau Baiocco -- the vibes were strong. We talk about everything from productivity and plate spinning to being a girl of slender means in the eighties, poetry and life modelling, the struggle of being the child of the only bohemians in the village. We talk about translation, the choice between learning greek and having a social life, the politics of Latin and Jane’s iconic translation of Sappho. You’ll also hear a wee reading from Mau, as a treat. Because you deserve it!
This conversation celebrates the recent publication of Jane’s debut poetry collection, SEKXPHRASTIKS, released by Dostoyevsky Wannabe. If you head to dostoyevskywannabe.com (that’s Dostoyevsky with a y!) you’ll be able to order it from pretty much anywhere in the world! It’s a rich and scintillating, foamy wonder of poems compiled over several years in response to art, desire, friendship and love, with brilliant cover art from the late artist Caroline McNairn. CAConrad says of the book: ‘Jane Goldman raps from inside our heads, do you get it, do you hear this, it is time to understand these things, these raw-lipped dadas without you-At the same time, her book pulls itself around us, and we get a new feeling about poetry, a subject we thought we knew well. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! WOW RIGHT FROM THE START AND IT JUST GOES GOES GOES!!!’
Jane Goldman, poet and academic, lives in Edinburgh and is Reader in English Literature [Avant-Garde Poetics and Creative Writing] at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the 12 collective of women poets Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies; her pamphlet Border Thoughts (Sufficient Place / Leamington Books, 2014) is ‘a little theatrical box of spectacle and light […] the living underworld of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera translated into raucous girlish post-war wayward ways’ (Lisa Jeschke, Hix Eros 6). SEKXPHRASTIKS (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2021) is her first full length poetry collection. She is also a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf and publishes widely on Woolf, modernism and the avant-garde.
This is part one of a two-part interview.
Production and editing: Max Parnell
Episode graphic is adapted from the SEKXPHRASTIKS book cover, which features Caroline McNairn's artwork.
URL Sonata #13: Soft Rupture at Mount Florida Books
A little treat from the IRL realm…
Today’s episode is a recording of a reading that took place at Mount Florida Books, Glasgow on the 10th September 2021. It features readings from (in order):
Maria Sledmere
Kirsty Dunlop
Andrew Spragg
Gloria Dawson
Peter Manson
If you’re ever in the neighbourhood, please do go and explore MF Books (they have lots of SPAM stock now as well!). If you want to support the writers, please look for their work online :’) and as for SPAM, you can support us by buying from our store, subscribing to our mailing list or donating to our Ko-Fi account.
Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #12: Readings from SPAM003
Readings from our third issue of the magazine, SPAM003. Listen on to hear what vibe and flavour our editors detect from these poems, what kind of substance SPAM is when it grows and how curating a magazine is like pickling onions.
Introduction: Mau Baiocco and Alice Hill-Woods
Production and artwork: Max Parnell
Music: Ben Deans.
All readers:
Rhiannon Auriol
Alli Warren
Honor Grigson
Jane Hartshorn
Go Sing
Brandon Brown
Nicks Walker
Jeremy Hawkins
Mai Ivfjäll
Max Henninger
Tawnya Selene Renelle
Keir Batchelor
Michael Black
Azad Ashim Sharma
Rae Phillips Smith
Julia Rose Lewis
Charlotte Heather
Read the magazine at spamzine.co.uk/spam003
Support SPAM at https://ko-fi.com/spampress
URL Sonata #11: With The Boys
'Apocalyptics. what a fucking rush' - so goes lyric in fred spoliar's new book (100pp!!!) from SPAM Press, With the Boys. There’s no escaping adjacency to the boys as an institution (so invulnerable! so fragile!) but are the boys themselves our enemies? Can they be lovers, even comrades? In this beautiful and playful book fred spoliar unravels worlds of gender and work to tease a poetry of pain and joy from the smouldering present.
Find out more by picking up the book yourself through the SPAM store.
In this episode, we present to you the recording from our Zoom launch of the book on the 12th August.
It features readings from Rhiannon Auriol, Brandon Brown, Ali Graham, Verity Spott and fred spoliar.
Ali Graham lives and works in Norwich. Their poems have been published by Cambridge Literary Review, Datableed, The Tangerine, and HVTN, and their essays have been published by or are forthcoming from Stride, SPAM, and Futch Press Journal. They can be found on Instagram as aligrhm and on Twitter as A__Graham.
Rhiannon Auriol is a writer interested in the creative-critical, post-internet hybridity & the experimental interdisciplinary. Her work is influenced and inspired by, among other things: esoterica; the devotional unlyric; internet kitsch; female mystics; mythology; the hyperconfessional; the psychedelic medieval; royal core; Žižek’s ‘masochistic theatre of courtly love’; the operatic; mental health; digital fashion & queer theory. Editor of Daughterhood Zine & postgrad student on the MA creative & life writing @ Goldsmiths UoL :~)
Brandon Brown's most recent books are Work (Atelos) and The Four Seasons (Wonder). He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books, and edits the occasional zine Panda's Friend. He lives in the Bay Area of California.
Verity Spott is a poet from Brighton. Their most recent publications are ‘Coronelles Set 1’ (Veer Books) and ‘Hopelessness’ (The 87 Press).
fred spoliar was born in London in 1992. Magazine publications include DATABLEED, Erotoplasty, Tentacular, Pigs zine, SPAM zine, Adjacent Pineapple and amberflora. With the Boys is their first full-length book.
Introduction: Alice Hill-Woods
Production: Max Parnell
Thanks for listening pals!
Teacher Voice Treatment Lecture 3 w/slides, by Sarah Hayden
Sarah Hayden's Teacher Voice Treatment is a set of 3 lectures, in two voices. What follows is an experiment in undermining the presumed point of powerpoint, and a faux-pedagogical, rampantly parenthetical pondering of what it means to “attend” (to) a lecture. Channelling the teacher voices of artists Tony Cokes, Laure Prouvost, Jayson Musson/Hennessy Youngman, David Blandy, Grace Weir, Hito Steyerl, Carolyn Lazard, John Baldessari, Nancy Holt (and Pythagorus), TVT tracks a course through voice-driven artworks (voiceworks) that stage scenes of instruction.
This sound piece is an accompaniment to Lecture 3 (w/ slides), which you can read on the SPAM Plaza here.
An earlier iteration of Teacher Voice Treatment was written and delivered in February 2020 for the Sound/Text seminar series at Harvard, chaired by Sophie Seita and Alex Rehding. Hearty thanks to Sophie, Alex and the seminar participants. Their generous responses prompted me to think harder about access, attention, reading-while-listening and what a powerpointed presentation presumes of its receivers. This sound, text and alt-text presentation of a revised, expanded, quasi-translated TVT for SPAM is indebted to our conversation. It is indebted, too, to conversations real and remote with Nisha Ramayya about voice in teaching and unteacherly talking.
To explore more of Sarah Hayden's work, you can go to: www.voicesinthegallery.com.
Teacher Voice Treatment Lecture 2 w/slides, by Sarah Hayden
Sarah Hayden's Teacher Voice Treatment is a set of 3 lectures, in two voices. What follows is an experiment in undermining the presumed point of powerpoint, and a faux-pedagogical, rampantly parenthetical pondering of what it means to “attend” (to) a lecture. Channelling the teacher voices of artists Tony Cokes, Laure Prouvost, Jayson Musson/Hennessy Youngman, David Blandy, Grace Weir, Hito Steyerl, Carolyn Lazard, John Baldessari, Nancy Holt (and Pythagorus), TVT tracks a course through voice-driven artworks (voiceworks) that stage scenes of instruction.
This sound piece is an accompaniment to Lecture 1 (w/ slides), which you can read on the SPAM Plaza here.
An earlier iteration of Teacher Voice Treatment was written and delivered in February 2020 for the Sound/Text seminar series at Harvard, chaired by Sophie Seita and Alex Rehding. Hearty thanks to Sophie, Alex and the seminar participants. Their generous responses prompted me to think harder about access, attention, reading-while-listening and what a powerpointed presentation presumes of its receivers. This sound, text and alt-text presentation of a revised, expanded, quasi-translated TVT for SPAM is indebted to our conversation. It is indebted, too, to conversations real and remote with Nisha Ramayya about voice in teaching and unteacherly talking.
To explore more of Sarah Hayden's work, you can go to: www.voicesinthegallery.com.
Teacher Voice Treatment, Lecture 1 w/slides, by Sarah Hayden
Sarah Hayden's Teacher Voice Treatment is a set of 3 lectures, in two voices. What follows is an experiment in undermining the presumed point of powerpoint, and a faux-pedagogical, rampantly parenthetical pondering of what it means to “attend” (to) a lecture. Channelling the teacher voices of artists Tony Cokes, Laure Prouvost, Jayson Musson/Hennessy Youngman, David Blandy, Grace Weir, Hito Steyerl, Carolyn Lazard, John Baldessari, Nancy Holt (and Pythagorus), TVT tracks a course through voice-driven artworks (voiceworks) that stage scenes of instruction.
This sound piece is an accompaniment to Lecture 1 (w/ slides), which you can read on the SPAM Plaza here.
An earlier iteration of Teacher Voice Treatment was written and delivered in February 2020 for the Sound/Text seminar series at Harvard, chaired by Sophie Seita and Alex Rehding. Hearty thanks to Sophie, Alex and the seminar participants. Their generous responses prompted me to think harder about access, attention, reading-while-listening and what a powerpointed presentation presumes of its receivers. This sound, text and alt-text presentation of a revised, expanded, quasi-translated TVT for SPAM is indebted to our conversation. It is indebted, too, to conversations real and remote with Nisha Ramayya about voice in teaching and unteacherly talking.
To explore more of Sarah Hayden's work, you can go to: www.voicesinthegallery.com.
Teacher Voice Treatment, Lecture 1, by Sarah Hayden
Sarah Hayden's Teacher Voice Treatment is a set of 3 lectures, in two voices. What follows is an experiment in undermining the presumed point of powerpoint, and a faux-pedagogical, rampantly parenthetical pondering of what it means to “attend” (to) a lecture. Channelling the teacher voices of artists Tony Cokes, Laure Prouvost, Jayson Musson/Hennessy Youngman, David Blandy, Grace Weir, Hito Steyerl, Carolyn Lazard, John Baldessari, Nancy Holt (and Pythagorus), TVT tracks a course through voice-driven artworks (voiceworks) that stage scenes of instruction.
This sound piece is an accompaniment to Lecture 1, which you can read on SPAM Plaza here.
An earlier iteration of Teacher Voice Treatment was written and delivered in February 2020 for the Sound/Text seminar series at Harvard, chaired by Sophie Seita and Alex Rehding. Hearty thanks to Sophie, Alex and the seminar participants. Their generous responses prompted me to think harder about access, attention, reading-while-listening and what a powerpointed presentation presumes of its receivers. This sound, text and alt-text presentation of a revised, expanded, quasi-translated TVT for SPAM is indebted to our conversation. It is indebted, too, to conversations real and remote with Nisha Ramayya about voice in teaching and unteacherly talking.
To explore more of Sarah Hayden's work, you can go to: www.voicesinthegallery.com.
URL Sonata #10: Interview with Grafton Tanner
On today's episode, Maria and Max welcomed Grafton Tanner, a writer and musician from Georgia, on to the podcast. Grafton Tanner is the author of The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. His work focuses on nostalgia, Big Tech, education, and neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues as The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and We Are The Mutants. He also hosts Delusioneering, an audio series about the myths of capitalism, and he writes and performs music with his band Superpuppet. Grafton is currently writing a book on nostalgia, titled The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia.
Grafton's second book, and one that we focus on closely in this episode, is The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech, published by Zero books last year. In this work, Grafton explores how nostalgia today can partly be understood as a consequence of the attention economy. Covering as diverse areas as cultural canonisation, virtual reality, Black Mirror and worker resistance to digital corporations, the book examines how Big Tech's algorithms are so effective at instilling nostalgia within us and allowing us to slip into such feedback loops. In doing so, this highlights many of the issues such weaponization and marketisation of nostalgia can lead to.
Audio Production: Max Parnell
Introduction: Max Parnell
Music featured:
Prayer - Supperpuppet - https://superpuppet.bandcamp.com/
VCR Menu - Soulacoaster Tycoon - https://soulacoastertycoon.bandcamp.com/
Lunch Club #13: Calum Rodger's PORTS (SPAM Press, 2019) (featuring guest Aaron Kent)
In this episode of lunch club, Maria and Kirsty were joined in the ZOOM studio by Aaron Kent, poet and publisher of the brilliant Broken Sleep Books. We discussed Calum Rodger's PORTS, which came out with SPAM in 2019, in which classic twentieth century poems are reimagined as videogame texts. The episode also includes a reading from Calum.
Listen on to hear our thoughts on the generosity and pedagogical potential of Calum’s work. We ask what does it mean to score points in a poem? , and unravel the pamphlets connection to a kind of maze poetics and Choose Your Own Adventure. We discuss the nostalgia of early video games and their connection with folklore, our gaming memories of accessing ports and the ongoingness of play and desire in the pamphlet, with an omniprescent feeling of unlocking treats in the language. Also, stick around to hear some wonderful new writing from Aaron, which we felt very lucky to hear.
Aaron Kent is a working class poet and publisher from Cornwall, though he currently lives in Wales with his wife, Emma and their two young children. He runs the Michael Marks Publishing Award winning poetry press Broken Sleep Books and has recently finished his debut novel, Council. He had several poetry pamphlets published, and his debut collection, Angels the Size of Houses, is out in July with Shearsman.
He has had work published by Blackbox Manifold, Butchers Dog, 3:AM, BAX (2020), Wild Court, Prototype, The Scores, and Prelude among others.
Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
Physical copies of PORTS are back in stock on spamzine.co.uk/shop for £4!
URL Sonata #9: Readings from SPAM002
Readings from our sophomore issue of the magazine, SPAM002.
Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop and Max Parnell
Curated by Kirsty Dunlop
Produced by Max Parnell
All readers, in order of appearance:
Meredith Grace Thompson
Fred Carter
Natalie Cortez-Klossner
Cassandra Troyan
Alex Grafen
Astrid Alben
Ezra Mars
Ian McCartney
Sam Weselowski
Caitlyn Main
Naomi Morris
Raian Oliveira
Abelomai Luncheon reading works by Emer McGinnity
William Gee
Rachel Cleverly
Ollie Tong
Alex MacDonald
gentian rhosa meikleham
Tom Betteridge
Imogen Free
etaïn zwer
Alex Noble
Read the magazine at spamzine.co.uk/spam002
Lunch Club #12: SPAM #4 Astral Projections and Talismanic Persuasions (SPAM Press, 2017) (featuring guest Livvy Bryant)
In this strange and special episode, recorded on the 17th June 2020 and recently unearthed from our audio archive, we invited the artist Livvy Bryant to talk about a ‘poem’ from issue #4 -- Astral Projections and Talismanic Persuasions. This poem is in fact an untitled essay by Matthew Nosal, which performs a close reading of Ed Sheeran’s chart hit, ‘Shape of You’.
Listen on to hear more about situationist sloganeering, imperative modes in disco, the poetics of WhatsApp critique, embodied art criticism, how MSN taught millennials to type fast, the struggles of music journalism, why aquarians are often successful artists and the ironies and sincerities of ‘a brilliant poetic choice’. What is the link between John Constable and the ginger pop star, Suffolk’s ‘primary cultural export’, that problematically cut his teeth in the grime open nights of the late noughties?
Livvy Bryant is an artist and writer from London and Suffolk. She currently writes for the magCulture journal, reviewing magazines, journals and occasionally the odd book. In her visual art practise she is a self-described post-internet artist, creating biodegradable 3D prints using a combination of traditional and novel techniques, including (but not limited) to iPhone photography and videography, watercolour paintings and calligraphy.
Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
Digital copies of Astral Projections and Talismanic Persuasions are available from spamzine.co.uk/shop.
POEM: 'Am I to be nowhere, gently?' by Scott Morrison and Maria Sledmere
You can read the full accompanying essay and poem at spamzine.co.uk/plaza.
Composition and production: Scott Morrison
Artwork: Douglas Pattison
Words: Maria Sledmere
URL Sonata #10: Each Sharper Halo
URL Sonata #9: glitterbawl launch
Lunch Club #11: Daddy Poem, by Helen Charman (SPAM Press 2019) (With special guest Sophie Collins)
Lunch Club #10: Time Zone by Dom Hale (SPAM Press, 2018) (featuring guest Kyle Lovell)
Kyle Lovell is a writer based in Birmingham, and they are the editor of Fathomsun Press. Their debut pamphlet, 'Each Sharper Complication', is published by legitimate snack. It's a collection of poems about debt, ghosts, and the lyric reflux.
In this episode, we explore everything from anime to fully automated luxury communism: the Trumpocene, the caress of tragic hamsters, poetry and advertising (that old chestnut!), the poet as a lyre for hire, finding poetry’s grooves, the economics of language, fraud, poetic confetti, the twitter poetics of aphorism, poetry that is ‘as zany as it gets’, poetry as hack, sugar rush, seeding and speedrunning, and how Dom’s prosody is all over Denise’s cupboards. Derrida’s hedgehog rolls headfirst into the Sonic the Hedgehog, and you get to witness Kyle elegently sidestepping the question of lyric, as all good poets must.
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Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
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Time Zone is out of print, however digital downloads are available at spamzine.co.uk/shop. Proceeds are split between SPAM, the author and Black Lives Matter. If you like this episode, please share it with your friends. : )
URL Sonata #8: Readings from SPAM001
URL Sonata #7 Readings from Season Four Pamphlet Launch with Oli Hazzard and Samantha Walton
Oli Hazzard has published two books of poems, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, 2012) and Blotter (Carcanet, 2018). He lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of St Andrews.
Samantha Walton is a poet, editor and academic based in Bristol. Her first collection, Self Heal, was published by Boiler House Press in 2018, and Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure, and The Living World, an ecocritical study of Nan Shepherd, are both coming out from Bloomsbury in 2021. She co-edits Sad Press, a small poetry press, and is interested in omens, sigils, and the end of the world.
You can order copies of PROGRESS: REAL AND IMAGINED and Bad Moon from spamzine.co.uk.
Produced by Max Parnell
Introduction by Maria Sledmere
Link to Samantha Walton’s BAD MOON playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2mgmUCgMuf2VEknRfFHfpf?si=U_5BnwvJQqeYo1UDjFrw-Q
URL Sonata #6 Readings from ASP Fair 2020
Our poets are:
Anna Danielewicz
Alex Marsh
Anjeli Caderamanpulle
Dom Hale
Loll Jung
Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Music, production: Max Parnell
All of the readers have work published with SPAM, which you can check out at our web store at spamzine.co.uk.
URL Sonata #5: Millennium Megabus Final Stop
Phoebe Eccles
Katy Lewis Hood
David Linklater
Andrew Spragg
Lizzy Yarwood
Barney Ashton-Bullock
Maria Sledmere
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Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
You can order a copy of Issue #10, Millennium Mega(bus) for £5.50 from our webstore: spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
Rosie Roberts 'portals' Launch - A reading from Lotte L.S.
Lotte L.S. is a poet living in Great Yarmouth. Her work is forthcoming or published with A) Glimpse) Of), Fathomsun Press, Tripwire, Chicago Review and Blackbox Manifold. She keeps an infrequent tinyletter, Shedonism.
In her portals performance, Lotte reads from a poetry sequence composed over lockdown, exploring as she puts it ‘How time weighs on gender and how gender weighs on time’. It’s an incredible movement and poetic slippage through history, ‘the present’, learning, surveillance, solidarity, dreams, survival, loss, attention and sound. As she writes ‘It is a practice of regard’.
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Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Production and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can find out more about SPAM and order a copy of 'portals' at spamzine.co.uk.
Thanks for listening!
Rosie Robert's 'portals' Launch Reading
This podcast features words from Max Parnell, Rhian Williams and a recording of Rosie's own reading from the launch.
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Production, introduction and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can order a copy of 'portals' from spamzine.co.uk and find out more about Rosie's recommended charity, FIVEXMORE, here: www.fivexmore.com.
Lunch Club #9: SPAM #6 Notes from the Watercooler (SPAM Press, 2017) (featuring guest Aoiffe Walsh)
Aoiffe Walsh is a second year PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research is concerned with the intellectual foundations of British Surrealism, examining the intersection between empiricist and poetic practices and the way that modernist poetry corrodes disciplinary boundaries. She has contributed writing to such projects as Avant-Garde Studies and Decorating Dissidence and regular publications of her work can be found in The Modernist Review
Listen on for our reflections on office vibes as lockdown escapism, micro environments nestled within industrial landscapes, cats as the antithesis of office culture, slinking out of meetings, and the emotional labour of customer service. You will hear Denise share her love for chairs with Aoiffe as they discuss the role of the chair in Sartre’s ‘Nausea’, you can try and count how many times we bring up blueberries, which links to Kirsty's recent online work training experiences, we come up with a new yoghurt brand name: Delicious Deleuze and you can find out who came up with the iconic phrase ‘your da sells cloud storage'. You also won’t want to miss the many Easter eggs that are revealed about the making of this issue and our various ridiculous office experiences.
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Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can support SPAM and the poets by purchasing a digital pay-what-you-want download of 'Notes from the Watercooler' from our online shop at spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
Lunch Club #8: SPAM #7 Prom Date (SPAM Press, 2018)(featuring guest Mike Bellis)
Mike Bellis is best known for his work with the independent rock band Clearance, based in Chicago. He’s here in Glasgow for the year on a Fulbright scholarship studying Scottish politics at the University of Strathclyde. His favourite poet is John Ashbery.
Amidst our discussion you can hear: everyone get real nerdy about our quarantine listening habits (everything from Jazz Harp to the Fall), we’ll reveal which SPAM editor is the romantic gemini, what the spice boy/fuckboy and vegetal nickname continuum is, what it was like for Mike and his band Clearance to play with Slowdive, which trendy poets were Fulbright Scholars, who has Sappho fresh on the brain, why Denise thinks American Prom is PG-13 and Italian prom on another level of edge. You’ll also experience Kirsty excitedly asking Mike about John Ashbery’s influence on his writing, who they both love and you will listen to Mike read Maria’s poem to her, it’s v cute promise…as a bonus witness the SPAM gals attempt for our listeners a cheeky 'ekphrastic description of [Mike's] visage'.
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Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can support SPAM and the poets by purchasing a copy of 'Prom Date' for £3.00 from spamzine.co.uk or download a digital copy and pay what you want. Thanks for listening!
Lunch Club #7: 'capriccio' by Daisy Lafarge (SPAM Press, 2019) (featuring guest Rhian Williams)
Rhian Williams is a writer and stay-at-home mother who lives in Glasgow. She writes on poetry, ecopoetics, theopoetics, and the everyday. The third edition of her Poetry Toolkit book came out in 2019 and she and SPAM's own Maria Sledmere have co-edited an anthology of new poetry, titled The Weird Folds: Everyday Poems from the Anthropocene that’s due out in August with Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
Given Daisy’s interest in air, microbiology and zoonoses (i.e. diseases passed between humans and nonhuman animals), it felt apt in times of corona to turn attention to her work again. Listen on for our hungover lowdown on the Millennium Megabus launch, plus reflections on pine pollen in Scotland, rave in the classroom, ethnomusicology and musical appropriation, Derrida’s hedgehog, Instagram affect, how 'capriccio' oscillates between vaporwave and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and why we should all go to orchid school.
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Introduction: Maria Sledmere
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can support SPAM and Daisy Lafarge by purchasing a copy of 'capriccio' for £5.00 from spamzine.co.uk Thanks for listening!
Lunch Club #6: SPAM #9 Astroturf (featuring guest Aaron Skates)
Aaron Skates is a former graduate student of Criticism and Culture. He now lives in North London and works for a record label, while writing and performing music. His poetry was once described by poet laureate Simon Armitage as ‘horrible in the mouth and in the mind’.
URL SONATA #4: SPAM #10, Millennium Mega(bus)
Eloise Birtwhistle
Rosa Jones
Sam Riviere
Torkel Tennberg
Kat Sinclair
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Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
You can order a copy of Issue #10, Millennium Mega(bus) from our webstore: shop.spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
URL Sonata #3: SPAM #6, Chips & Cheese
Lunch Club #5: SPAM Chips n Cheese, selected readings (featuring guest Scott Morrison)
Lunch Club #4: Josie Rogers's 'a bouquet' (featuring guest Maebh Harper)
We discuss, among other things, the languid aesthetics of Josie’s poem, the sense of longing for touch and human breath in times of isolation, the craze around wild garlic, the strange intimacy of working via ZOOM, slicing up Brian Eno’s voice, branded ice cubes and rediscovering familiar surroundings via wandering.
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Introduction: Max Parnell
Editing, production and original theme: Max Parnell
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You can support SPAM and the poet by purchasing a copy of Issue 9: AstroTurf for £3 from spamzine.co.uk. Thanks for listening!