Finished reading titles by lately: Bragg, Truhlar, Fraticelli, Brockwell, Abel, Reiss, Berg and an issue of illeratature but the last 3 are for another day of blogging. Winter Music by Mary Lee Bragg Tree Press, 2013). You can hear her read excerpts at her launch. If you are a reader who’d rather read words than […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Taylor, Dempster and Domanski
Tree Seed Workshop with Bruce Taylor was looking at rhetorical device of sound, cacophony and euphony with discussion around sample poems contrasting techniques of Edith Sitwell, Charles Olsen, Stephen Morrissey, Eric Ormsby, Phillip Larkin, Ezra Pound, George Eliot Clarke, Mary Oliver, Paul Muldoon, Louis Dudek and Derek Walcott. 18 people came to the round table […]
Plan 99: Hall and Corral
Plan 99 did a Versefest fundraiser with Phil Hall and Eduardo C. Corral. And there were door prize draws of a bag of books each from Anansi, Brick and Arc. Phil Hall’s most recent book of poems is called The Small Nouns Crying Faith (BookThug, 2013). Hall was the 2011 winner of the Governor General’s […]
Chaps, chapbooks and Pre-Book
8 ways to display your haiku. If you don’t want to work it out yourself there’s a lot of chapbook templates, courtesy of My Bookez Congratulations to Sandra Alland & Gil McElroy who are this year’s co-winners of the bpNichol Chapbook Award, last night at Meet The Presses New at Canadian Poetries a conversation around […]
Interviews with Ottawa-area writers
Pearl Pirie where I talk about projects and armageddon. Amanda Earl talking about influences and sample her poetry. Claudia Coutu Radmore, politics and art. Kimberley Dawkins and her visual art. Adam Thomlison from the beginning. Thanks Liana! There are more videos of artist and writer interviews done by Liana Voia here including half hour with […]