URL SONATA

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 b

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 we

Readings of gooey-gorgeous sweet sugar-high poems from Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere's collaborative book, Cocoa and Nothing 🍫 - 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, b

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

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... - Peter Ma

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 lyric

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, “spinn

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 t

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 corkscre

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 Macart