Jun 25 2023 55 mins
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.