web02.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:48:43 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Era - Episodes Tagged with “#Jasonpurcell” https://snowy-dew-6832.fireside.fm/tags/%23jasonpurcell Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal en-us episodic Dedicated to asking authors the right questions. Weird Era Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal yes Bookstore, Books, Fiction, Literature, Bookclub, Authors, Interviews, 2024books, Montreal, Montrealbookstore, Indiebooks, Indiebookstore, Bookish, MTL, PulBooks, PulpBooksandCafe, Weirdera, Weirderapod Weird Era sruti.islam@gmail.com Episode 117: Weird Era feat. Jason Purcell https://snowy-dew-6832.fireside.fm/117 8bbb47fd-4619-45b8-8117-24009dcc39b0 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 Weird Era full Weird Era In this special episode, Jame (@gay__writes) sits down with Jason Purcell to trace the poetics of illness: a body co-authored by medicine, the ecology of care, queer survival inside the architecture of harm, and the quiet politics of rest. 1:01:20 yes About Jason Purcell: Jason Purcell (they/them) is a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Alberta). They are the author of the poetry collections Swollening (Arsenal Pulp Press) and A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). They are a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. About Crohnic: A poetic meditation on what it means to live a medicated life, looking toward sites of nature where life and death exist side by side Crohnic is a brilliant and moving collection of poems that asks, what is the landscape of a medicated life? From their convalescence in a room that overlooks the North Saskatchewan River, author Jason Purcell thinks ecologically with medical records, prescriptions, and dosages, staying attuned to place and to what it might mean to live a life relying on something - in this case, an interminable course of medication - that hurts you in some ways to help you in others. How does the terrain of life change? Picking up the threads of sickness first plucked in Swollening, Crohnic charts two years of Purcell's treatment for Crohn's disease, journeying from hospital rooms to bogs and muskeg, places where life and death intermingle and create the conditions for one another's flourishing. This is a world populated by coyotes, ermines, steroids, pine, infusion drips, moss, pills, and ice. These other-than-human beings come together in Crohnic, coalescing into relations that together form a personal narrative of the management of chronic illness. #jasonpurcell, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #trip, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast, #jasonpurcell, #crohnic About Jason Purcell:
Jason Purcell (they/them) is a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Alberta). They are the author of the poetry collections Swollening (Arsenal Pulp Press) and A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). They are a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

About Crohnic:
A poetic meditation on what it means to live a medicated life, looking toward sites of nature where life and death exist side by side

Crohnic is a brilliant and moving collection of poems that asks, what is the landscape of a medicated life? From their convalescence in a room that overlooks the North Saskatchewan River, author Jason Purcell thinks ecologically with medical records, prescriptions, and dosages, staying attuned to place and to what it might mean to live a life relying on something - in this case, an interminable course of medication - that hurts you in some ways to help you in others. How does the terrain of life change?

Picking up the threads of sickness first plucked in Swollening, Crohnic charts two years of Purcell's treatment for Crohn's disease, journeying from hospital rooms to bogs and muskeg, places where life and death intermingle and create the conditions for one another's flourishing. This is a world populated by coyotes, ermines, steroids, pine, infusion drips, moss, pills, and ice. These other-than-human beings come together in Crohnic, coalescing into relations that together form a personal narrative of the management of chronic illness.

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Jason Purcell (they/them) is a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Alberta). They are the author of the poetry collections Swollening (Arsenal Pulp Press) and A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). They are a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

About Crohnic:
A poetic meditation on what it means to live a medicated life, looking toward sites of nature where life and death exist side by side

Crohnic is a brilliant and moving collection of poems that asks, what is the landscape of a medicated life? From their convalescence in a room that overlooks the North Saskatchewan River, author Jason Purcell thinks ecologically with medical records, prescriptions, and dosages, staying attuned to place and to what it might mean to live a life relying on something - in this case, an interminable course of medication - that hurts you in some ways to help you in others. How does the terrain of life change?

Picking up the threads of sickness first plucked in Swollening, Crohnic charts two years of Purcell's treatment for Crohn's disease, journeying from hospital rooms to bogs and muskeg, places where life and death intermingle and create the conditions for one another's flourishing. This is a world populated by coyotes, ermines, steroids, pine, infusion drips, moss, pills, and ice. These other-than-human beings come together in Crohnic, coalescing into relations that together form a personal narrative of the management of chronic illness.

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