Author Archives: Pearl

A reminder that Friday evening at the Japanese Embassy, Ottawa, there will be music by Debbie Danbrook, a rare female Shakuhachi (Japanese flute) player performing with Catriona Sturton. There will be a reading of haiku and senryu and the launching a haiku chapbook by KaDo Ottawa. (KaDo is Japanese for “the way”.) The event is […]

been shed bore by Pearl Pirie, Chaudière Books, 2010 Review – been shed bore: Sandra Stephenson Pearl Pirie’s new book flings ideas like shed clothes on a sunny Sunday. Flashing, panning and sizzling, a richness of words and density of image, layered without the distractions of prefab (eg. articles, pronouns, even preposterous prepositions) are like […]

Nov 12, Keane, Susan, Ann and Chris gave a sound poetry performance of Turnbull’s Continua 1-22 chapbook at an above/ground reading. Gary Barwin read from The Porcupinity of Stars and short fiction. And rob mclennan new from new works of poems and short fiction. (The picture is from the St. Catharine’s reading.) What else? I […]

How to reach across the irresolvable dark? I’ve seen so many readers become self-conscious as they read their poems, apologize for “depressing you all” and muddle and fiddle and seem to become aware for the first time that there is an accumulated effect on a stack of like-minded poems of difficult subjects. Yet others read […]

I haven’t the neurons free to write more but I can point to things such as my photo set of Grey Borders Reading and to this photo of me from a Factory Reading a couple years ago and this one also by Charles Earl from the Ottawa reading a week ago. And here’s a video […]