Ottawa small press fair is this Saturday, Nov 18th noon to 5pm. Tom Brown Arena, not the usual place. I’ll be there with never-seen chapbooks and maybe-you-missed-them chapbooks. Brownies if I feel particularly ambitious, which seems an outside chance at this point. https://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ottawa-small-press-book-fair-autumn.html
Author Archives: Pearl
Ottawa small press almanac
Psst, there’s a group of us who make stuff in and around Ottawa and a blog for it. If you’re a maker, you too coulf get involved.
New chapbook: cento
error is character to try to widen down into joy’s great escape doubt is bad if it forces upon us the silence of closure. fold within green fold my doubt I am lost my only anchor / dither dither as dubious power nope — malarkey — enoughhere goes to have had to be 60 […]
Substack & whatnot
Writing and Disability is something I pondered at substack and will probably loop back to again. At the moment I have 4 books I’m processing to review. Another incoming by mail. And a book blurb. And my own poems to edit. But first I want to finish our cosplay. I need a certain jacket and […]
Review: Orion Sweeping
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), […]