Many thanks to Sarah Marie for this exclusive interview with MA|DE collaborators Jade Wallace and Mark Laliberte:

SM: Okay, so … something like ZZOO is a traditional book of poetry — but only sort of. How does something like that come together? 

MA|DE: It was a slow process, really. We started writing the poems that would eventually appear in ZZOO back in 2018, which is also when we first started collaborating. We didn’t really have any plans when we first started writing together; we just wanted to experience one another through the work.

Check out the entire interview here: ZZOO: Miramichi interview with MA|DE