Author Archives: Pearl

The narrator is implied without an explicit I because without a narrator there would be silence not words. A lot of poems begin with I, which is to say, let me tell you about myself but is that not like a business telling a customer: let me tell you how you can help our business. […]

I’ve gone to 7 reading, 4 poetry workshops, plus a haiku conference in the last 3 weeks. Less than I intended to and pencilled in to go to, but more than I could have. People keep commenting on how I go to a lot of things. Greg Betts did a double-take at seeing me at […]

This isn’t my post for the day (or might be) but what Amy King at the Huffington Post puts an interesting spin on this subject of clarity and transparency of meaning versus seeing where it goes and how: I’m often told that I have an occasional beautiful line or image but my poetry sometimes doesn’t […]

Ok, I said I was taking the weekend off. But since I’m reading it any and putting things on FB anyway I may as well put here too. I went lookinfor the Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert shortlists. Further in Stephen Rowe’s archives is this contemplation of what does “great poem” mean, in which he […]

Clever postman doesn’t ring even once, just uses 3 elastic bands and hangs it from the handle. No delivery notice and running about after delivery trucks and it being on trucks when I check the post office. Books in the mail. What’s better? Contents, usually. More to come. Always more to come. btw, the previously […]