Nols Nathankski talks about self publishing "Oh, Nols!" his first poetry pamphlet and why you should self publish to. This episode was pre-recorded to be released after his surgery on the 13th January 2026...just in case he dies on the operating table.

Nols discusses his feelings of uncertainty about the pamphlet and examines Maurice Blanchot's philosophy of literature to try and finds a weird friend in a dead French philosopher.

In this episode Nols talks to the triumph and despair of self publishing your first poetry pamphlet. The weirdness of sending poems into the world to not be yours anymore.

Who owns poems and what happens when it is not you reading them at an open mic?

This is a poetic existential crises with some new poems thrown in and bits from the pamphlet.

Expect poetic despair and a desperate request to join the patreon so the box of pamphlets does not haunt Nols like a ghost.

Nols printed his pamphlet at the burley fisher bookshop community press:

Merch – Burley Fisher Books

If Nols is still with us, he will be hosting a wake for the pamphlet at the shop on Thursday 12th February 2026 at 6pm-9pm

This podcast was very influenced by

The infinite conversation by Maurice Blanchot

The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot

The Space Of Literature

The @hermetix episode below was also really informative.

Maurice Blanchot, Literature, and Language with Bryan Counter

An immodest proposal by Joseph Brodsky out now in

On Grief And Reason

Join the Patreon to get a copy or message Nols on instagram.

www.patreon.com/makepoetryweirdagain