Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill (Brick, 2022) has a cover of a pen and ink fox and moon by Arthur Balitskiy I’d consider framing. Divided into four self-explanatory sections: “Earth”, “Air”, “Familia”, “Loss Lessons” and “Assisi Variations”, the book has some overlap with Nuclear Family by Jean van Loon (McGill Queens University Press 2022), […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Sealey Challenge
When August started I was on a fantasy novel kick. Patricia Briggs, Megan Bannen, Neil Gaiman, and Andri Snaer Magnason, Kimberly Lemming and Sangu Mandanna. Sure, I could do those and continue poetry, right? I often alternate between poetry binges and novel binges but I could do parallel binges. Push more through the head, why […]
Status and trajectory of Tree Reading Series
If you missed it, a message from Brandon, Over September and October (and beyond, if it takes a while) we’ll be looking for a whole new group of board members and volunteers, and a new artistic director. It has been an absolute honour and pleasure to curate and host Tree events as I have since […]
Sealey Challenge, Week 2
A Possible Landscape by Maureen Harris (Brick, 1993/2006 2nd printing) [Sealey #6] has a symmetry with others on the TBR pile, specifically Frances Boyle and Kim Fahner, all referencing quiet luminous moments, and in admiration of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A reflection towards or out of calm, I’m not sure which. From “Spring”, How can I […]
Unboxin’!
Turret House Press now has my chapbook available for sale for $7. Or you can buy a whole year of chappies (probabably 6 or so) for $60. It’s also stocked at Phoenix Books Montreal, 5928 Sherbrooke O. This series of spare poems Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie plucks moments out of time and presents them in […]