Joyelle McSweeney

Join Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson, founders of Action Books, as they discuss the avant-garde, transgressive lit, translation as collaboration, and being publishers in red states. They explore the political aspect of envisioning the future and the impact of living in red and blue states. The podcast also covers the concept of necropastoral, the influence of environment on aesthetics, and the complexities of small presses and collaborations.

Joyelle McSweeney discusses integrating poetic elements into everyday life, crafting poetry in a peripheral location, creating a crown of sonnets dedicated to John Keats, unveiling hidden atrocities through poetry, recounting personal experiences with hearing loss, recounting a heartbreaking journey through hospital stays, overcoming a writing block through rules and style icons, and reflecting on loss and beauty through tactile memories.

Poet Joyelle McSweeney discusses her latest poetry collection 'Death Styles,' exploring the juxtaposition of death and style, survival through writing, and the eerie prescience of her works. The bonus audio features a performance from her operatic reimagining of the trial of Oscar Pistorius. The conversation delves into aesthetics, poetics, and the intertwining of personal and global tragedies in her work.