Pearl Pirie is an editor and an award winning Quebec poet. English book review editor of Haiku Canada Review in 2026 and coordinator of the Betty Drevniok Haiku Award,
News: We Astronauts (Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2025). You can order from the press. Rushing Dusk (a/g, July 2024). Awarded a 2023 D.C. Reid poetry grant. Newest from phafours: Michael Hofmann: poems by Jamie Sharpe (November 2024).
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Her fourth full poetry collection, footlights (Radiant Press, 2020) is about “finding small beauties.” Order it.
Awards & Honours: footlights was shortlisted for the Lampman Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and nominated for the A.M. Klein. rain’s small gestures (Apt 9 Press, 2021), minimalist poems, won the 2022 Nelson Ball Prize. the pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015), won the Lampman Award. Thirsts (Snare/Invisible, 2011) won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her poems have been given the nod for Best Canadian Poetry in English 3 times. She has a poet profile at the Haiku Foundation.
Support her at Patreon & see behind the scenes poem drafts. Or drop by Substack and read essays on poetics.
Thanks and appreciation to the Canada Council for the Arts for a 2021 Explore and Create Research and Creation Literature Grant. It encourages and assists. And much appreciation to CALQ for a research and creation literature grant for 2022.
