Convivialities

Dialogues on Poetics – April 2025

I’m proud to share the news that my new book Convivialities will be out in April and is now available for pre-order:

CONVIVIALITIES: Dialogues on Poetics – Michael Nardone, with Dana Michel, Gail Scott, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Shanzhai Lyric, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, Kevin Davies, Raven Chacon, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Cecily Nicholson, and Ryan C. Clarke.

Published in April, 2025 by Talonbooks. 240 Pages.

Available for pre-order in Canada via Talonbooks, the University of Toronto Press, and Amazon.
Available for pre-order in the USA via Consortium Books and Amazon.

This project has been a long time in the works. It emerges out of a series of conversations with writers and artists I began having around 2010, with folks like John Giorno and Lisa Robertson and Alejandro Jodorowsky, among others. Over time, the process of making dialogues has become central to my editorial and critical work, and I know it is a format I will continue to experiment with in the years ahead.

There’s a lot to say about the modes of listening, the sense of collective composition, and the discourse of poetics that are all articulated throughout this book – I look forward to sharing soon its introduction, excerpts of dialogues, and news of the various programs the work will be a part of in the spring and summer.

For now, with the updated cover design now complete, I simply wanted to share a first look at the work, and urge readers interested in the stellar crew of writers, artists, and thinkers all involved in this project to pre-order copies of the book. Your support means a lot as we finalize the book’s production in the weeks ahead.