Author Archives: Pearl

The room was packed, standing room only and oops faces coming in the door as the hour went on. Rob Winger was launching The Chimney Stone (Nightwood Editions, 2010) at the Manx, Ottawa last night. A reliably great reader, love how his poems don’t take the conventional path. I can’t project and then wait for […]

Off the wall reflections on the haiku-music performance. After the introductions by Ambassador Ishikawa, on November 19th there was a haiku and music performance at the Japanese embassy put on with KaDo Ottawa. Musicians who did ekphrastic responses to the poems with many instruments from rattles and windchimes to blues guitar and harmonica. The poems […]

What a wild literary city. 6 events in the evening time slot of Thurs., Nov 25th. Here are two: Apt. 9 Press is proud to present a night of poetry readings from William Hawkins, Leigh Nash and Peter Gibbon. 8:00pm Raw Sugar Cafe (692 Somerset St. W.) No Cover William Hawkins – Sweet & Sour […]

Tree of Codes takes a text and die-cuts so the text at each page turn has some of the pages before and after. It’s by Visual Editions It nests nicely against what derek beaulieu posted, “Bibliocidal Tendencies”: British Publisher Information as Material Tears Into Literature for Art’s Sake by Ross Simonini at ArtInfo.com. When a […]

Tours, tables and talks at Dominion College, 96 Empress (near Bronson and Somerset), 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday In addition to a fine collection of publications by local authors, this year’s version of the Ottawa Independent Writers Book Fair comes with new features— artisans, history, architecture, philosophy and literary readings. For […]