URL SONATA

Jan 05 2025 56 ep. 63 mins 6
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A podcast by SPAM Press, covering everything from poetry to vibe theory.

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URL Sonata #27: Cocoa and Nothing at The Poetry Club

Jan 05 2025 47 mins  
This episode of live poetry was recorded at the Glasgow launch of Cocoa and Nothing, which took place at The Poetry Club on 21st February, 2023. What's on the menu? Poetry readings in order of appearance: Sara Mostafa Leo Bussi Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir Colin Herd & Maria Sledmere Donate to SPAM Buy the book Buy the audiobook Intro and production by Maria Sledmere (

Lunch Club #15: Bad Moon with Jac Common

Aug 20 2023 41 mins  
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

URL Sonata #26: Cocoa and Nothing at Hopscotch Reading Room

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 we

URL Sonata #25: Cocoa and Nothing

Mar 12 2023 86 mins  
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

Brilliant Vibrating Interface #3: Interview with Parel Joy

Feb 19 2023 37 mins  
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

URL Sonata #24: Readings from Poetry! at the University of Glasgow (November 2022)

Jan 15 2023 83 mins  
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

URL Sonata #23: Readings from Season 6 Launch at The Alchemy Experiment (May 2022)

Dec 16 2022 75 mins  
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

URL Sonata #22: Readings from (Late) Summer Bummer at The Doublet (October 2022)

Dec 11 2022 61 mins  
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

Brilliant Vibrating Interface #2: Interview with Aischa Daughtery

Nov 19 2022 72 mins  
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

URL Sonata #21: Readings from With Ghosts at Argonaut Books (July 2022)

Nov 16 2022 67 mins  
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