Compulsive Reader talks

Compulsive Reader talks


Latest Episodes

PS Cottier and NG Hartland on The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin
November 14, 2024

PS Cottier and NG Hartland, authors of The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin, read from and talk about their new book, which won the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 publishing prize for fiction. We talk about some of the key themes in the book like identity, semblance

John Kinsella on Beam of Light
September 16, 2024

John Kinsella reads from and talks about his new short story collection Beam of Light. We talk about the use of furniture in this book, the connective themes, its malevolent undercurrent, the importance and beauty of a sentient landscape, his characters a

Girls on Key 10th Anniversary Zoom
September 14, 2024

This was a special zoom session of poetry to mark the 10th anniversary of Girls on Key featuring Sophia Wilson, Mikaela Nyman, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Patricia Sykes, Nancy Holland-Shroder, and open mic readings from Anna Forsyth (GoK founder), Lou Steer, and

Sarah Temporal on Tight Bindings
August 28, 2024

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, producer, and educator who runs the well-respected regional arts initiative Poets Out Loud. She joins us to read from and talk about her debut book Tight Bindings. Visit Sarah’s website at: https://sarahtemporal.co

Patti Miller on the newly revised version of Writing True Stories
July 03, 2024

Patti Miller joins us to read from and talk about her book Writing True Stories which has just been extensively updated and extended. She talks about what has changed in the 30+ years since she started teaching Life Writing, the impact of technology, her

Julia Levitina on The girl From Moscow
June 23, 2024

Julia Levitina reads from and talks about her new book The Girl From Moscow including such things as how the book came about, why fiction, how the book follows her own departure from the Soviet Union, the importance of 1983 as her setting, inherited traum

Omar Musa on The Fullness
May 13, 2024

Omar Musa joins us to perform from and talk about his new album The Fullness. We talk about collaboration and his amazing collaborators, pushing into liminal spaces of multiple identities, leaning into grief and joy ("our lives given shape by shadows

Kent MacCarter on Fat Chance
April 18, 2024

Kent MacCarter joins us to read from and talk about his new poetry book Fat Chance. We talk about Kent's process, about having written the "feel bad book of the year, his journalistic process, the nature of Gossypiboma (retained medical objects)

Robbie Coburn on Ghost Poetry
March 06, 2024

Robbie Coburn reads from and talks about his new book Ghost Poetry. Topics covered include the many ghosts that haunt the pages of the book, dreams and nightmares, the relationship between horses and people, subject and object, the subconscious, confessio

Marina Kamenev on Kin
February 18, 2024

The author of Kin: Family in the 21st Century reads from and talks about her new book, about the many permeations of family both nuclear and otherwise, about the book's origins, some of her key themes and challenges including such things as donor priv