Author Archives: Pearl

On top is the much banged about prototype but below is the start of the cover stock being shaped by fire. When that’s done, assembly and binding. Almost there. Over a year of talking, pitching, collecting, editing, designing and layout – almost there. They’re going to be a beautiful setting for some striking poems. Where […]

I like it best when my brain is pulled like a fitted sheet, pleated at corners in tension. These books are from different places and perspectives and yet they all aim to provoke a change, not give a comfort. Currently reading, in part thanks to Black Squirrel Books, Texistence (2008, Xerox Sutra Editions) by Geof […]

The 6th season of the A B series launched last night with Geof Huth!! I’ve followed and enjoyed his writings for years so as soon as I found out about this one it went straight into my don’t miss calendar. I have read his blogs and books but seeing a person in person is always […]

Going into production now…the next 2 mini chapbooks: a cluster of as by Amanda Earl and hhh by Gary Barwin. More to come…should all be launched by the small press fair in November, or maybe even, finger’s crossed, Southern Ontario launch later this month.

Tree reading series is something of an open university between the Tree Seed Workshops looking into craft and performance, and the regular Schrödinger’s Poet Readings where someone pays tribute to a former or contemporary pillar poet to introduce the life and works in under 10 minutes. The archive has been updated including my tribute to […]