Podcast on Samantha Walton’s Bad Moon (2020)

It’s been a while since we recorded an episode of Lunch Club over at SPAM HQ, but I was really excited to join Jac Common and Ian Macartney in the studio to discuss the 2020 spamphlet Bad Moon by Samantha Walton.

Further reading:

  • Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (1929).
  • Galina Rymbu, Life in Space (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020, trans. Joan Brooks).
  • William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) public domain.
  • William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii.I
  • Aiskhylos, Agamemnon in An Oresteia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, trans. Anne Carson)
  • Derek Jarman, Modern Nature (London: Vintage, 1992).
  • Daisy Hildyard, The Second Body (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017).
  • Fred Carter (2022) ‘`Crude Oil Shaping Forms of Writing`: Galina Rymbu’s Life in Space, Ecoes, 4, 56-65.
  • Esther Leslie, Fog, Froth and Foam: Insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres in Electric Brine (Berlin: Archive Books, 2021, ed. Jennifer Teets).
  • Sophie Lewis (2017) ‘Amniotechnics’, The New Enquiry, link
  • Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (New York, London: Duke University Press, 2021).
  • Stacey Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
  • Lauren Berlant (2007) ‘Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)’, Critical Inquiry, 33(4), 754–780.

Futher noise:

  • Funeralopolis – Electric Wizard
  • Copy of A – Nine Inch Nails
  • Sulfur – Slipknot
  • THE PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA – Lingua Ignota
  • Pet – The Perfect Circle
  • Welcome To My Island – Caroline Polachek
  • Save The Dream, Kill Your Friends – Pupil Slicer
  • Autoimmune – Pharmakon
  • Land Disasters – Blanck Mass
  • Enjoy The Silence – Depeche Mode

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Official Bad Moon playlist:

Reading from infra·structure at the Govanhill Book Festival

video by Santiago Taberna, 9/8/23

Really lovely to be part of the Broken Sleep Books showcase!

This poem is from infra·structure, co-written with Katy Lewis Hood and available here:

https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/katy-lewis-hood-and-maria-sledmere-infra-structure

(from left) our big green pal, Maria Sledmere, Taylor Strickland, Samuel Tongue, Saskia McCracken, Annie Muir 💚

Thanks to the rest of the Scotland-wide Broken Sleep clan for your gorgeous readings!

In for pre-fall 2023

Asymmetry

Gull telepathy

Bloody cuticles

Rose pearl nail polish

Poetry that is pink-red

Velour sleepwear

Claire’s Accessories

Freestorming

404 error 🙂

Bunches

Amorous uncertainty

Noise cancelling

Overly zealous eyeliner

Broody for collie

Colour blocking

Alternative gelatines

Semi-sobriety

Handwriting

Smashing an electric guitar in your dreams

‘ayrshire smoke’ from Redmonds

Forget christmas

Chronodiversity

Shine conditioner

“Where are the afters”

Upgrade yr cloud storage

Purloined glassware

Table tennis

Springburn

Sorry muesli

Slovenly hair barrette

Speed-texting

FUCK SONNETS

Crying ???

Trams

Spreadsheets

Souvlaki

Stick and pokes

Crochet cliché

Petrichor

Giraffes

Workplace napping

Random gift-giving

Heliotropism

Aliens

Shoegaze

Typos

Virga

Revenge