Author Archives: Pearl

Vote for up to 3 covers at Salty Ink’s Judge a Book by its cover competition until Dec 10 [via Q&Q blog] You didn’t miss the comments section? > Are you aware you have a typo on this cover competition page? > Salty Ink: Susan, yes. It think it’s important to have one typo per […]

I can think of two cases where there are competing models of top down vs. participatory, for the relationship between the artist and the public. The two settings come to mind: performance art and anthologies. Going to thrash around in the notion of assumptions of power dynamics and latitudes of freedoms assumed in each case. […]

And now from the book’s site, you can buy the collection directly with paypal. Why read it? In been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010), Pearl Pirie shows herself to be a keen listener and observer of people: their speech patterns, their conversations, tones, gestures, and language. She samples from life and from the written and […]

This year’s governor general literary award winner in the English poetry category is Richard Greene, Cobourg (Ontario), for Boxing the Compass., (Signal Editions, an imprint of Véhicule Press). The jury’s comment included, “We follow him in his offbeat but strangely familiar travels.” Here’s a sample poem about a grandfather. You can get your books signed […]

Robert Peake considers his own biases in What I look for in a poem There are certain ways that a poem can signal to me that, out of respect for so many others awaiting my attention, it is now time to move on. What a nice way to put that. And poets “pressing antique language […]