Author Archives: Pearl

Phil Hall and Rachel Simpson were launching their new Apt 9 chapbooks Nov 24th at Raw Sugar. Claudia Coutu Radmore also launched her last Apt 9 chapbook, Accidentals, which won the bpNichol Award. Cameron has put together 1100 items of fine literature to date with his press, each chapbook handsewn with love and grace. If […]

There was all kinds of good and goods to be had this round with local and regional writers or publishers and a few out-of-towners. Every year there’s a switch over of it seems about 1/3 of faces behind tables. The next one is towards the end of June 2013. But this year first… Lydia Peever […]

One day held four small press events: Canzine West in Vancouver, Expozine in Montreal, Indie Literary Market in Toronto and the Ottawa small press fair. At Ottawa’s fair, and over the week, I got 13 things to highlight: Instruments of Surrender by Christine Wiesenthal (Buschek, 2001) from the backlist 3/$10 deal. I liked the playful […]

On Saturday the fall fair returns, 12-5pm, Jack Purcell Community Centre, 2nd Floor. What to expect? mysteries, non-fiction, poetry, letterpress, literary magazines, handmade papers, vampire novels, zines, graphic novels, small publishers, chapbooks, ephemera & unexpecteds. Good place to see what your local and not-so-geographicallly-local neighbours have been up to since spring or since last year.

Jay MillAr at CPPC says, It makes me nervous because publishing a “collection of poems” (you know, the kind in quotes) doesn’t give the media anything to talk about. But maybe this will mean people will read the poems and think about them rather than sound-biting the book to death before they get a chance […]