Series 3 Episode 5 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with poet and mathematician Pedro Poitevin. Topics of conversation include the role of meaning in poetry and palindromes, definitions and redefinitions of the sonnet, politics and art, winning Roman coins at Palindrome Fight!, and finding sonnets…

Series 3 Episode 4 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with composer, poet, and YouTuber Samuel Andreyev. Topics of conversation include the benefits and difficulties of new media for composers and poets, the role of new technology in music and poetry, and the nature of 'authenticity' in art. Listen …

Series 3 Episode 3 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. Happy Halloween! In this episode, Anthony and Clara speak with poet and Hem Press publisher Richard Capener about their mutual interest in horror movies. During the conversation, they run through Empire Magazine's 50 Best Horror Movies and discuss several recent movie discoveri…

Series 3 Episode 2 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with poet, translator, and copywriter Moira Walsh. Topics of conversation include Moira's Enneract Editions chapbook Earthrise, poetry as a therapeutic exercise, realistic idealism, and translating poetry. Purchase Earthrise from the Penteract Pr…

Series 3 Episode 1 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with poet and Hem Press publisher Richard Capener. Topics of conversation include current events in the independent poetry press community, the role of avantgarde art, politics in art, and the futures of Hem Press and Penteract Press, Part 2 of t…

Series 2 Episode 18 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In the series 2 finale, Anthony and Clara steal a YouTube channel's idea and ask each other questions while eating increasingly spicy hot wings, ranging from 1,600 Scoville Heat Units to 2,000,000 Units. Topics of conversation include the state of the poetry industry, publishi…

Series 2 Episode 17 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with writer, copywriter, and poet Nick Asbury. Topics of conversation include the politics of the poetry world, concepts and constraints, songwriting, branding, self-directed learning, and authority. Check out https://asburyandasbury.com/, for e…

Series 2 Episode 16 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with Mick Hodgkin, limerick writer, crossword setter, and Puzzles Editor for The Times and The Sunday Times. To mark National Limerick Day 2023, Anthony and Mick discuss limerick form and its history, share some favourite limericks, and chat abo…

Series 2 Episode 15 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with visual artist, poet, and educator Laura Kerr. Topics of conversation include Laura's recent entry into the world of NFTs, AI-generated art and writing, conceptual art, Twitter Blue, seeing colours differently, and drawing hands.... Anthony …

Series 2 Episode 14 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri. To celebrate the 50th episode of The Penteract Podcast, Anthony (and, from 1.26:50, Clara) chats with the podcast's very first guest, Christian Bök. The questions in this episode are based on a series of polls conducted by Penteract Press's Twitter account, be…

Series 2 Episode 13 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony Etherin and Teo Eve discuss the history of the alphabet. Topics include hieroglyphs and the rebus principle; the evolution of letterforms; runes and lost letters; the impact of the printing press and of digital media; and the alphabet's future. Also di…

Series 2 Episode 12 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony meets Sasha Stiles, to discuss AI-generated poetry, NFTs, and Sasha's work with theVERSEverse. Topics include: poetry on the blockchain; the relationship between constrained poetry and AI-generated poetry; Ray Kurzweil and transhumanism; and the future…

Series 2 Episode 11 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with Lori Wike about puzzles, wordplay, and Lori's work as Principal Bassoon for the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Topics include inventing puzzles and poem forms, (not) solving Torquemada's Cain's Jawbone, the flow state, and the relationship betwee…

Series 2 Episode 10 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony meets Jack Waley-Cohen, Co-founder of What3Words, Question Editor for the BBC' s Only Connect, and Co-owner of QuizQuizQuiz. Topics of conversation include TV quizzes, wordplay, entrepreneurship, and the success of the What3Words app. Follow this podca…

Series 2 Episode 9 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony and Marian Christie — author of Fractal Poems (Enneract Editions, 2021) and From Fibs to Fractals (Beir Bua Press, 2021) — discuss the relationship between mathematics and poetry, while making time to discuss their shared interest in cricket. Read "A Re…

Series 2 Episode 8 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri. In this episode, Anthony and Clara catch up with comedian, writer, and palindromist Mark Saltveit, to discuss Mark's career in stand-up. Topics of conversation include the comedy circuit, cancel culture, and Taoism. This episode has been recorded in anticipatio…

Series 2 Episode 7 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with Jane Espenson about her work as a writer on such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, and Once Upon a Time — other topics include conceptual metaphor, word games, literary wordplay, and ‘Buffy Speak’. Follow this podcast …

Series 2 Episode 6 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with visual artist, poet, and educator Laura Kerr. Topics of conversation include process art, social media, galleries, books, and NFTs. Follow these links to see the art Laura is referring to, when discussing her process (towards the end of the …

Series 2 Episode 5 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. "Live! David Astle melts a diva devil!" "Decode! Lest David Astle decode!" In this episode, Anthony speaks with writer, presenter, and celebrated crossword setter David Astle. Topics of conversation include the crossword community, different approaches to crossword setting, and…

Series 2 Episode 4 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony speaks with Andrew Hugill, author of 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide (MIT Press, 2012), and Christian Bök, author of 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press, 2001). The three pataphysicians present an introduction …

Series 2 Episode 3 of The Penteract Podcast, presented by Anthony Etherin and featuring an interview with novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz. Topics of conversation include wordplay and structure, genre and tradition, and adapting novels for the screen. Alex Rider series one and two are currently available on IMDb Tv. Magpie Murders is curr…

Series 2 Episode 2 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with chess champion, artist, photographer, musician, poet, and palindromist Merlina Acevedo. In this episode, Anthony and Merlina discuss Merlina's experiences playing competitive chess. Topics include competing in Olympiads, playing Kasparov and Spas…

Series 2 Episode 1 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin. In this episode, Anthony meets Wall Street Journal lexicographer Ben Zimmer and Word Wars director Eric Chaikin. Together, Ben and Eric operate Beyond Wordplay, a platform dedicated to the art, science, and culture of words. Topics of conversation include the National Puzzler’s…

Episode 36 of The Penteract Podcast. For the final episode of series one, Anthony Etherin interviews Clara Daneri, discussing Clara’s interest in combining traditional and digital media, her experience as a publisher for Penteract Press, and the future of both Penteract Press and The Penteract Podcast. Listen to episodes of The Penteract Podcast on…

Episode 35 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Michelle Moloney King of Beir Bua Press. Topics of conversation include small press publishing, the British and Irish avantgarde, hypnosis and meditation, and defying poetic labels. Visit Beir Bua press here. Follow this podcast on Twitter. Discover more…

Episode 34 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Helen Mitchell, organiser of the Small Publishers Fair — an annual fair of books by artists, writers, poets, composers, and book designers — held at Conway Hall, London. This episode focuses on the history, present, and future of the Small Publishers Fai…

Episode 33 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan, host of BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. In this episode, Anthony and Ian discuss poems, puns, podcasting, and pithering, as well as their fascinations with wordplay and Twitter. Listen to The Verb here. Follow this podcast on T…

Episode 32 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet Tom Jenks. In this episode, Anthony and Tom discuss poetic constraint, humour in poetry, and the material qualities of language, as they launch Pack My Box With Five Dozen Liquor Jugs, a pangrammatic novel written by Tom Jenks and Catherine Vidler. …

Episode 31 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, and featuring an interview with poets Astra Papachristodoulou and Steven J Fowler. In this episode, Steven and Astra discuss the European Poetry Festival (curated by Steven), Astra's recent Text-Isles exhibition in Rhodes, and European poetry in general. Listen to Stev…

Episode 30 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet Sacha Archer. In this episode, Anthony and Sacha discuss the relationship between poetic traditions and radical experimentalism, the purpose of poetry, and Sacha’s new Penteract Press chapbook, Jung Origami. Experience Sacha’s “event poems” on his Y…

Episode 29 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with visual poet Derek Beaulieu. In this episode, Derek discusses his poetic practice, the potential and range of poetry, and the importance of small press publishing. Learn more about Derek's work by visiting his website, http://derekbeaulieu.wordpres…

Episode 28 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with composer, poet, podcaster, and YouTuber Samuel Andreyev. In this episode, Anthony asks Samuel about his creative practice and about creativity more generally: What does it take to be an artist? What is the point of being an artist? How should one …

Episode 27 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast — a special episode for the launch of Penteract Press's summer books: Slate Petals (and Other Wordscapes) by Anthony Etherin, Untravelling by Mary Frances, and The Kazimir Effect by Christian Bök. In this episode, Anthony Etherin, Mary Frances, and Christian Bök — joined by Clara Daneri — discuss their new…

Episode 26 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast — a special episode, presented by Clara Daneri, and featuring Anthony Etherin answering questions asked to him via Twitter at the end of 2020. Topics include the hows and whys of constrained poetry / formal poetry and small press poetry publishing. This podcast is the first of two special episodes launchin…

Episode 25 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and with guests Christian Bök, Pedro Poitevin, and Nick Montfort. This is a special panel episode, featuring a discussion of the relationship between poetry and STEM, in particular mathematical and constraint-based poetry, biological poetry, and computational poetry. The convers…

Episode 24 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, and with guests Kate Siklosi, Gregory Betts, and Nasser Hussain. This is a special panel episode, featuring a discussion of the past, present, and future of experimental poetry in Canada. Topics include bpNichol and The Four Horsemen, Conceptualism, and the hist…

Episode 23 of the Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, and featuring an interview with Lori Wike and Mark Saltveit, about the history, present, and future of palindromes in literature and music. *CORRECTION: Peter Hilton's great palindrome is, in fact: "Doc, note! I dissent: A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod."…

Episode 22 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, and featuring an interview with Johanna Drucker, Amanda Earl, and Joakim Norling (of Timglaset Editions). This is a special episode, in support of “Judith”, an anthology of visual poetry made by women. Timglaset Editions will be publishing “Judith” and is curren…

Episode 21 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with visual poet Astra Papachristodoulou. In this episode, Anthony and Astra discuss object poems, neo-futurism, exhibitions and Astra's work with Poem Atlas. Learn more about Astra’s poetry by visiting her website, https://www.astranaut.co.uk/ Discove…

Episode 20 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet Luke Bradford. This a special episode, for the launch of Luke's book "Zoolalia", published by Penteract Press on Saturday 20th February, 2021. Join us on Twitter, at 7pm UK time, Saturday 20th February, to help launch the book: Ask questions …

Episode 19 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet Franco Cortese. This a special episode, for the launch of Franco's book "Lip", published by Penteract Press on Saturday 20th February, 2021. Join us on Twitter, at 7pm UK time, Saturday 20th February, to help launch the book: Ask questions ab…

Episode 18 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, and featuring a visual poetry panel discussion, with guests Laura Kerr, Rachel Smith, and Derek Beaulieu. Topics of conversation include the status of visual poetry in contemporary poetry, the nature of artistic experimentation, and the development of new visual…

Episode 17 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet Ken Hunt. In this episode, Anthony and Ken discuss the relationship between science and poetry, paying particular attention to Ken’s three books, The Manhattan Project, The Odyssey, and The Lost Cosmonauts. Learn about PortraitAI (discussed d…

Episode 16 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Christian Bök, author of Eunoia and winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize. In this episode — Christian’s second interview for the podcast — Anthony and Christian discuss their mutual interest in composing heavily constrained poetry. They also co…

Episode 15 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, and the second of a series in which Penteract's Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri together interview fellow small press publishers. In this episode, Kate Siklosi and Dani Spinosa discuss their work with experimental poetry publisher Gap Riot Press. For more on Gap Riot Press, visit https://www.gapriotpress…

Episode 14 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet... novelist... musician... (etc.) Gary Barwin. This a special episode, for the launch of Gary's book "Ampers&thropocene", published by Penteract Press on Saturday 15th August, 2020. For more of Gary's work, visit http://garybarwin.com/ Discov…

Episode 13 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet John Bevis. This a special episode, for the launch of John's book "Letter-Winged Kite", published by Penteract Press on Saturday 1st August, 2020. Join us on Twitter, at 7pm, August 8th, to help launch the book: Ask questions about the book, …

Episode 12 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet and artist Richard Biddle. This a special episode, for the launch of Richard's book "Consciousness", published by Penteract Press on Saturday 25th July, 2020. Join us on Twitter, at 2pm, Saturday 25th, to help launch the book: Ask questions a…

Episode 11 of The Penteract Podcast. Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri together interview fellow small press publisher Haley Jenkins about her work with Selcouth Station Press. For more on Selcouth Station, visit https://www.selcouthstation.com/ Discover more about Penteract Press by visiting our website and our Twitter. And, if you like what you he…

Episode 10 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring a second interview with poet and curator Steven J Fowler. This a special episode, for the launch of Steven's book "Crayon Poems", published by Penteract Press on Saturday11th July, 2020. Join us on Twitter, at 7pm UK time, Thursday July 9th, to help launch the book…