Category: Interview

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PAGE FRIGHT interviews MA|DE (episode 105 — “Getting Uncomfortable in Your Poems”)

In MA|DE‘s first appearance on the PAGE FRIGHT podcast (episode 105), we talked with podcaster-poet Andrew French about our debut collection ZZOO, the challenges of collaboration, what we both have learned from each other, balancing a thousand different projects at once, writing poetry about animals, how performance factors into our writing (thanks to Annick MacAskill‘s question from the last episode), and getting out of artistic ruts, all in just under an hour.

Listen to the interview (59m) here

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ALL LIT UP interviews MA|DE


“Part of our guiding ethos as MA|DE is a sense that we should optimally function like an indie band, with the publisher acting as a label. It’s crucial for us to be actively involved in every stage of the book’s life cycle—including writing, editing, designing, marketing and touring.”

ALL LIT UP talked to Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace, the duo behind MA|DE, about their collaborative process and their new book ZZOO (order here), which has FIVE very striking covers so that readers can select their favourite!

Read the interview here

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PERIODICITIES bpNichol Chapbook Award shortlist Interview with MA|DE — now online

💥 Periodicities (a journal of poetry and poetics) bpNichol Chapbook Award shortlist Interview with MA|DE is now online, in anticipation of the Meet the Presses’ bpNichol Chapbook Award gala next week! This is a series of 4 interviews that the site recently conducted with all the shortlisted creators … we talk to editor Rob McLennan about how A Trip to the ZZOO started, whether there will be a full-length book, how MA|DE relates to our individual work & who influences us.

— Read the full interview here

— Register for FREE to attend this year’s Virtual Meet the Presses Festival (including the bpNichol Chapbook Award Winner Announcement) here

— The 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award will be announced on Nov 25 @ 7pm (more info)

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MA|DE Interviewed on CBC’s ALL IN A DAY Radio Program

💥 We had a good time talking with Alan Neal and Sanchari Sur about our affective object (pictured below) for CBC’s ALL IN A DAY radio show in anticipation of Sanchari’s ‘Bodily Feelings: Writing Poetry Using Affective Objects’ workshop at VERSeFest on Sat Nov 13 …

— You can listen to the entire 11m47s conversation here

Reminder: our VERSeFest workshop happens Sun Nov 14 at 2pm (register now!) and we’ll be talking about the vast & exciting array of approaches to collaboration!