Author Archives: Pearl

Book and Briar Patch in Regina is changing into an office where you can make special order books only. Aug 2nd, the bookstore closes. The shelves are emptying out. This is what’s left of the poetry section: Everything is 80% off. There are other odds and ends (emphasis on odds) like this kneehigh stuffed beaver […]

I heard live at the OIWF parts of Susan Buffam‘s most recent book, The Irrationalist. Some set me into my happy place of good poetry. I guess at the time Michael Lista’s Bloom impressed me more, because I remarked more about him. That was partly because I wanted to look into his method of writing […]

This chapbook struck me for its beauty in hand, the weight of cover stock and page texture. After reading the contents — biographical poetic stories of a woman having to make morgue-trips to identify two of her sons to two accidents within two years — it became obvious how the fit of form and content […]

Olive Senior will be the feature at Tree tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. at Art’s Court. This week’s Tree will have the second free pre-Tree workshop session with Guy Simser. He’s pictured here taking questions after the last workshop. He’s looking at giving a context for how tanka developed in North America in the 30s […]

We’ll have a Symosium on Toronto Poet Ted Plantos, ‘the Cabbagetown Kid’, hosted by Julie McNeill and featuring a presentation on Ted’s place in the pantheon of Canadian People’s Poetry by academic Terry Barker. Kent Bowman, Peter Rowe, Mick Burrs, Carol Malyon and other friends and comrades of Ted will be holding an informal round […]