Author Archives: Pearl

Purdy fundraiser reading, Nov 18 will include guests, Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Steven Heighton, Dave Bidini, Paul Vermeersch, Russell Brown and Geoff Heinricks, among others. This all takes place in the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront. The Purdy CD from Cyclops might be of interest as well? Michael Bryson looks critically at Raulston Saul‘s lecture on […]

I’m reading slowly, flipping between… Greek Passages by Peter Riley (Shearsman, 2009) (p. 76, re-reading) Another monastery, 17th century crucifixes with minutely detailed wood carvings speaking of immense skill […] The speech that actually speaks, in words, pitches, arms, numbers, thing. In minutely carved olive-wood. / A road-side stall selling honey at a remote corner […]

I’d read and liked Concrete and Wild Carrot and a few reviews [won’t link to Globe & Mail since it loads pop over content ads] of Listening: last poems. I’d also heard a most emphatic panning of it that aroused my curiosity, as condemnations tend to bring moths. And then as a thank you for […]

Oana Avasilichioaei and Erin Moure entertaining with their reading from their collaborative book Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009). They were playing in and with translations and each other in theatrical ways. Think its accurate to say that they engaged everyone. What if you make up a poem claiming it is translated but it never […]

Phil Hall has an essay up at AngelHouse Press in which he says on p. 3 of 14 something I find refreshing…this distinction between habit of revealing rawness/emotionalism and just a particular way of doing verbal theatre. When Layton says (in the last line of ―The Bull Calf‖), I turned away and wept, he is […]