Author Archives: Pearl

When presented with a first or second person poem, I feel as though I am speaking with a close talker. If I like the tone it may be pleasant if I’m in the mood for the subject or energy level, but more likely it will feel “in my face”. If it feels autobiographical, it’s socially […]

Tonight I’ll be speaking at Tree after Sandra gives one of her typically spectacular readings. A surreal transition, this being back in town. Months Weeks of no one but Hub and I then a whole crew. Which reminds me, here’s another tidbit from The Trip…while cycling in Paris we came to a red light and […]

The Giller Prize list is out and what an amazing town. Between Writers’ Fest, and Plan 99 I’ve heard read 1/4 of the dozen novels and novelists in person within the last year, namely, Martha Bailie for her novel The Incident Report, published by Pedlar Press, Jeanette Lynes for her novel The Factory Voice, published […]

And now for some holiday travel heroic couplets that fall a little short… The Roving Detective Returns to the Scene at Midnight The sock, which at dawn, was wrung within inch of damp, was hung yet at day’s end of “drying” is wetter off, dead sopping. Holmes, what do you make of it? The spout […]

In Paris a marvelous ex-pat bookstore is jammed to rafters of 2 floors of English books. Naturally I beelined to the poetry corner. Downstairs is a rabbit’s warren of new and used books… I could see multiple full collections of Paula Meehan. I could flip thru Ciarán Carson in person. Something I browsed gave the […]