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Get Lit interviews MA|DE (Ep. 455)


“… you are trying to recognize your own patterns and push against them and write more into this other space you’re creating together. There’s a lot of intentionality behind it.”

GET LIT‘s Jamie Tennant talked to MA|DE about our debut full-length collection, ZZOO for CMFU fm / McMaster University (episode 455) — we discussed where collaboration begins, what sets ZZOO apart other contemporary lyric poetry collections, how two very serious people manage to make playful work and what’s on the horizon for MA|DE in the near future.

Listen to the GET LIT podcast here

Order a copy of ZZOO here


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The Miramichi Reader interviews MA|DE


“We want to always be trying out new forms and approaches. This means that every manuscript is a completely new animal. For each new project, we’ve had to reset the parameters of what the collaboration means to us.”

THE MIRAMICHI READER‘s Administrative Editor, Sarah Marie, talked to MA|DE about our debut full-length collection, ZZOO in this exclusive conversation — she asked us a range of excellent and surprising questions, covering topics from ZZOO‘s conceptualization & emotional landscapes to practical matters like touring & publicity for small press poetry collections.

Read the full interview here

Order a copy of ZZOO here


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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’s 2025 ‘World Poetry Day’ Reading Recommendations!


World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.

Amazing to see ZZOO is a part of ALL LIT UP’s ‘30 must-read poetry collections’ list, recommended to help celebrate this special day — thanks for including us alongside so many other interesting artists (like Jessica Bebenek, Kyle Flemmer, Tea Gerbeza, Amy LeBlanc, Joseph Maviglia and Cecily Nicholson to name a few!)

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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