Author Archives: Pearl

Mm, new books. An advantage of travel is finding new voices, whole communities that happen to be elsewhere speaking a dialect you can hear. Case in point, I came across The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry: 1967-2000 edited by Peggy O’Brien. It was at the Poetry Library in the Southbank Center, London. Here’s […]

Tents and couch’s cushions, blankets and packs One in wild beard and Dali moustache is yelling, making an arbitrary point at one of the sixty cycling past. Men unkept. On the grass 7th arrondissement A dozen groups Evenly spaced as electrons on valences Ten women and one man in a circle A woman and her […]

I carried around with me An Oak Hunch for days to remember to get Phil Hall to sign it at the above/ground reading and then didn’t end up making my way over to speak with him at all…I really have to learn to move faster. But then one can’t die of que ser-y, usually, so […]

In September, rob mclennan is starting another series of poetry workshops, a 4-week concentrated conversation about contemporary writing practice to happen at the Carleton Tavern (upstairs), Parkdale Market, Ottawa. Participants should be prepared to have roughly ten pages of their own poetry completed before the first class, to be workshopped throughout the four sessions. Participants […]

For the Sweet 16 of above/ground press, chapbook launches by Roland Prevost and Phil Hall. (Veralum by Phil Hall, Our / Are Carried Invisibles by Roland Prevost). On August 13th, Issue 13 of Peter F Yacht Club will be available. For lucky thirteen, the white album, contributors are: Cameron Anstee, Stephanie Bolster, Amanda Earl, Lea […]