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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

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2025 Ontario ‘ZZOO’ Tour Announcement!

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After 6+ years collaborating together MA|DE is FINALLY GOING ON TOUR to promote our debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO!

We hope you’ll be able to join us at one of these launches:

FEB 28 TORONTO > Queen Books
MAR 01 GUELPH > ANAF Club 344
APR 12 LONDON > Little Wren Books
APR 13 ST. CATHARINES > Niagara Artists Centre / Phylum Reading Series
APR 26 WINDSOR > Biblioasis Bookshop
JUN 18 PETERBOROUGH > Take Cover Books
JUN 19 KINGSTON > Novel Idea
JUN 21 OTTAWA > Ottawa Small Press Book Fair
JUN 23 HAMILTON > Hamilton Public Library

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More details, including guest readers at every event, coming soon! And if you’d like to invite us to read somewhere, we’re still booking events for this year, just get in touch.

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