The Tale of the Clam Ear
The Tale of the Clam Ear is the story of a mermaid and her struggle to accept her deformity. In 20 poems, Christine Stoddard offers a child’s magical rationale for not fitting in. These poems are for anyone who has been told that their body is wrong. They offer ways of coping and articulate feelings of shame, of loneliness and of celebration and love. If you listen closely you will hear the mermaid’s cries.
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP THIS UP FOREVER
In YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP THIS UP FOREVER, Ian Martin writes of societal malaise and failure, robots, insecure sex swings, a cuckolded employee, monotony, sanity, escape, masc top aspirations, lack of communication and the sacrifices of the moon. These humorous and humble poems are insightful. They’re the most gorgeous crushed soda cans in the pile.
The Small Machine Talks - Episode 33 - Interview with Manahil Bandukwala
The Small Machine Talks Episode 33
Recorded on Sunday, May 13, 2018
with a.m. kozak, Amanda Earl and Manahil Bandukwala
Click here to listen to the episode.
Manahil Bandukwala is a Pakistani born-and-raised writer and artist currently living and studying in Ottawa. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Puritan, Bywords.ca, Room Magazine, Ricepaper, Coven Editions, In/Words, battleaxe press and others. She is currently an editor for In/Words Magazine & Press. She has joined the editorial team for Canthius.
http://manahils.com/
We speak of the visual nature of Manahil’s poetry and her art and how the approaches are similar and different. We spoke about the connections between her art and getting involved in Ottawa’s literary scene.
Plucked - https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2018/03/plucked-by-manahil-bandukwala/
We discuss using non-English words in poems to push back against the idea that English is the dominant language and losing one’s language, things that cannot be said with English. @peacehearty @verseottawa talk 7.12
We speak of Manahil’s poem, In Bloom, which intertwines Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic and Persian. http://nationalpoetrymonth.ca/index.php?NPMid=526 8.35
We speak of whether Manahil feels a responsibility to write about her culture. 12.24
16.11 role of food and drink in Manahil’s life and work.
Feast, Bywords.ca September 2017 http://bywords.ca/september2017/index.php?p=1
24.38 moving from prose to poetry
Mini Poetry Interview with Thomas Whyte
http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Manahil%20Bandukwala
26.40 relationship between editing others and own writing and organizing events
30.55 stage fright, performance vs reading
37. We talk about the honour of publishing people’s writing and hosting them at readings. @_amkozak @manaaaahil
39. Current projects @inmagazine Descent – those who submitted will find out soon
40 @sawdustseries May 23 how @manaaaahil found out she was featuring
40. 49 Backyard Worlds: miniature creations by two sisters
https://backyardworlds.wordpress.com/author/backyardworlds/
Nimra Bandukwala’s art
https://www.instagram.com/bandukwali/
Stay tuned for our next episode in June and our interview with Cameron Anstee. Thanks to everyone for listening and sharing the podcast!
presented as part of Kanada Koncrete Material Poetries in the Digital Age, University of Ottawa, May 4-6, 2018. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for funding part of the Vispo Bible in 2018.
The Small Machine Talks - Episode 32
The Small Machine Talks Episode 32
Recorded on Sunday, May 13, 2018
with a.m. kozak, Amanda Earl and Manahil Bandukwala
Click here to listen to the episode.
In which we talk about recent and upcoming events in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, recent reads including Cassidy McFadzean’s Hacker Packer, Vallum 15:1, Natalee Wee’s Our Bodies and Other Fine Machines, the walk as poetic form and essay, a.m. kozak’s playwrighting debut as part of CSArt’s subscription service, accessible locations, funny one-liners, little millenialisms, calls for submission, contests and hints for submitting poetry to Bywords.ca.
Links to stuff mentioned in the episode include the following:
Kanada Koncrete program http://artsites.uottawa.ca/canlit-symposium/en/program/
M. Nourbese Philip – the Book of Un with Undex http://shop.acontainer.co/product/m-nourbese-philip-the-book-of-un-and-undex
Gap Riot Press https://gapriotpress.wordpress.com/
Comma by Jennifer Still https://bookthug.ca/shop/books/comma-by-jennifer-still/
Project 40 http://p40collective.ca/
CSArt http://csartottawa.ca/
Hacker Packer by Cassidy McFadzean https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/249782/hacker-packer-by-cassidy-mcfadzean/9780771057229/
Vallum Magazine http://www.vallummag.com/
Our Bodies and Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee http://natalieweewrites.com
Bywords.ca http://bywords.ca/
Stay tuned for our next episode in which we interview Manahil Bandukwala. The episode will be on line later this month, and our next round up of events, books and calls will be in June.
Thanks to Charles for processing, Jennifer Pederson for intros and outros, to you for listening and sharing the podcast and to the publishers who have been sending us books for review and discussion on the podcast. Stay tuned for talks on books by Invisible Publishing and Wolszak and Wyn. Thanks to Manahil and Aaron…
NATIONALPOETRYMONTH.CA 2018
AngelHousePress thanks the following poets and artists for their contributions to NationalPoetryMonth.ca this year and thanks to all who sent us submissions, who shared and promoted the site this month.
The work will be on line at http://nationalpoetrymonth.ca until February 28, 2019. A new call for submissions will go out via our AngelHousePress mailing list (sign up at AngelHousePress.com), our FB page and my personal Twitter account: @KikiFolle.
1. Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma - Poet (English and British Sign Language versions): Donna Williams; Film Co-directors: Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska; British Sign Language interpreting and translation consultation by K. Yvonne Strain, Scotland
2. Man-flavoured Condoms – Jeff Kirby, Canada
3. fátima queiroz [untitled typewriter poem] Brazil
4. Where To Find Me – Robin Sinclair USA
5. Gary Barwin @garybarwin [untitled visual poem] Canada
6. Melissa Beek – My Stolen Sisters, Metepenagiag First Nation
7. Márton Koppány – Forecast (Hungarian Vispo No. 18), Hungary
8. the nth digri – Sugar Cane (video) Canada
9. michele provost and zachary robert – A Good Thing, Canada
10. Jenna Jarvis - pokémon battle simulator, Canada
11. Donmay – Feeling and Understanding, USA
12. Ariel Dawn – Morning, Canada
13. Sacha Archer – falls into line, Canada
14. Bola Opaleke – A Stone Goes Into the Water Not Drown In It, Canada
15. Daniel f. Bradley lowrent boogie woogie, Canada
16. Willy Palomo – Mark 6:41-42, USA
17. andrew topel – triptych, USA
18. Diana Manole - Trump’s Abecedary (Selections), Canada
19. Tchello d’Barros – INFINITALL, Brazil
20. Jane Eaton Hamilton – The Hole in Her Cheek, Canada
21. Kate Siklosi – the shade of it all, Canada
22. Mimi Ramos Lebuffe - I knew or was (la vocal eterna), Canada
23. Marilyn R. Rosenberg (MRR) – STOP OVER, USA
24. Melissa Carey – Roadwork, Canada
25. psw – signs [Korean typewriter series] Germany
26. Manahil Bandukwala In Bloom, Canada
27. Carol White – Matron of Doll Hospital – Collage on Water Color Paper, Ireland
28. Catherine Graham – Fire Glass, Canada
29. Carol Barbour – Spider War, Canada
30. Ally Fleming – For This Poem To Exist I Have No Choice But To Suffer This Grief, Canada
Stay tuned for announcements of new chapbooks to be published with AngelHousePress and DevilHouse in the spring and autumn, and the 11th issue of Experiment-O.com in the autumn as well. Also a.m. kozak and I will continue to host the Small Machine Talks, exploring the poetry scene in Central Canada and beyond. Stay tuned for interviews, event recaps and wish lists, calls for submission and reviews of books and chapbooks to come!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the celebration.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl