Here, mostly poetry, some local history, philosophy and a novel. Underway to finish are various histories and biographies. distinctions: (rob mclennan, above/ground, 2014) The fragmentary pieces play towards and away from narrative. For example while not without subject or central density, it teases parts of external and internal and multiple readings. Yet as “not presently”, […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Rout/e at Petrie Island
The rout/e poetry installation in the ecological reserve of Petrie Island was a poem planting event on Oct 10th. The park is on the east side of Ottawa. It went up on Thanksgiving weekend and stay up until they’re gone. This, as with the first manifestation of the footpress, was a sort of ‘nature note’ […]
Getting Authors On Air
Time attracts no fruit flies. pesbo has been going since August 2005. Next year it turns double digitals. But Literary Landscape turns 18 next year! It can’t vote yet but you can. This isn’t the Ottawa election. Voting with your wallet is allowed. Want to support the show? $10 minimum gets an income tax receipt. […]
95 books for 2014: list 12: from biography to bp
Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, edited by Margaret Coulby Whitridge (Borealis, 1976) 1892 was exceptionally productive with Lampman writing 17 sonnets. From 1883-1899 he wrote over 450 poems; about a quarter of them were published. He received $25 per sonnet published in the dollars of that day while his full time government job paid $1000 […]
Funding Drive Season
It’s gearing up. Privately owned radio comes from private citizens.