Tombolo Books is thrilled to present the launch event for local author and friend of the bookstore Tyler Gillespie's latest poetry collection,
the nature machine!

Since 2020, Tyler Gillespie has spent a lot of time online and in other landscapes devoid of humans IRL. While undergoing quarantine with his grandmother in Florida, he began expanding his writing practice with new forms of media expression, going as far as recording snippets of a comedy album and creating a pop diva robot persona through text-to-talk technology. Although he eventually abandoned these projects, traces of them can be found in the nature machine!

Throughout this collection, Gillespie merges poetic forms with interstitial moments of sound and visual technologies to playfully theorize the now and to seriously contemplate the future. With dexterity, he threads ideas on cybernetics, pop music, the environment, desire, and recovery to examine how technology has transformed our natures. But ultimately, full of warmth and wit, this book reminds us why, despite everything, we're still not-yet-machines.

Gillespie will be joined by local poet Heather Sellers and owner and operator of Print St. Pete, Kaitlin Crockett!

Please RSVP via the link to let us know you'll be there!