Toasting the end of grim January, join Kyle Lovell and Maria Sledmere for a joyously belated double launch of their pamphlets Each Sharper Complication (Legitimate Snack) and neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press).

In this episode, you’ll hear readings from: 
Kirsty Dunlop
fred spoliar
Mauricio Baiocco
Nell Osborne
Maria Sledmere
Kyle Lovell

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Kyle Lovell is based in Birmingham and is the editor of Fathomsun Press. They were named a Foyle Young Poet in 2014, and their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Magma, Blackbox Manifold, Pamenar Press, woe eroa, and other publications. Their debut pamphlet, 'Each Sharper Complication', is published by legitimate snack/Broken Sleep Books.

Maria Sledmere is editor-in-chief at SPAM Press, a member of A+E Collective and very occasional music journalist. Recent publications include infra•structure – with Katy Lewis Hood (Broken Sleep), Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press) and neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press). With Rhian Williams, she co-edited the anthology the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She's currently finishing a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

fred spoliar is an education worker in london. recent poems can be found in -algia, amberflora, Pigs Zine, Tentacular and Erotoplasty. their first pamphlet will be available in 2021. follow @debt_bubblebath on twitter.

Kirsty Dunlop lives in Glasgow and writes poems, short stories, electronic literature and collaborative work. She is a DFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and is the poetry and nonfiction editor at SPAM Press. Most recent work is a broadside collaboration with nicky melville, THE FACT THAT, out with GONG FARM.

Mau Baiocco is a poet and occasional essayist and translator, ordinarily living in Leeds but now exiled to southwest London.

Nell Osborne is based in Manchester. Recent work has appeared in places such as Manchester Review of Books and Bath Magg. She co-runs No Matter, an experimental reading and commission series based in Manchester, and co-edits the zine Academics Against Networking.

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Introduction: Maria Sledmere

Production and original theme: Max Parnell

Please consider donating, if you feel able, to Poets Hardship Fund UK over at http://poetshardshipfunduk.com.

Each Sharper Complication is available here:
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/legitimate-snack

& neutral milky halo here: 
https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/maria-sledmere

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Stay well,
SPAM HQ xoxo

URL Sonata #10: Each Sharper Halo

A collaboration between Scott Morrison and Maria Sledmere, in response to Lana Del Rey's poetry collection/album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.

You can read the full accompanying essay and poem at spamzine.co.uk/plaza.

Composition and production: Scott Morrison
Artwork: Douglas Pattison
Words: Maria Sledmere

POEM: 'Am I to be nowhere, gently?' by Scott Morrison and Maria Sledmere

Readings from our sophomore issue of the magazine, SPAM002.

Introduction: Kirsty Dunlop and Max Parnell
Curated by Kirsty Dunlop
Produced by Max Parnell

All readers, in order of appearance:

Meredith Grace Thompson
Fred Carter
Natalie Cortez-Klossner
Cassandra Troyan
Alex Grafen
Astrid Alben
Ezra Mars
Ian McCartney
Sam Weselowski
Caitlyn Main
Naomi Morris
Raian Oliveira
Abelomai  Luncheon reading works by Emer McGinnity
William Gee
Rachel Cleverly
Ollie Tong
Alex MacDonald
gentian rhosa meikleham
Tom Betteridge
Imogen Free
etaïn zwer
Alex Noble

Read the magazine at spamzine.co.uk/spam002

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