Author Archives: Pearl

Many times I get comfort from poetry, get strokes to the part of my mind or heart that needs it. Many times I open a cover seeking new or expecting distraction, or a shift from restless into steady focus, but it’s been a long time since I had that poetry sensation, of opening a cover […]

Added to my currently reading I’ve gotten back into Anne Szumigalski’s When Earth Leaps Up, and frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho by gary barwin and derek beaulieu. The latter dazzles my brain and makes me salivate at the all the ways that twisted. The former short-circuits any attempt to be linear but […]

Somewhere, somehow I ran across Leaf Books in Wales. How they described themselves grabbed me (by the funny bone) Each book we produce has a colourful, simple design and can be made into hats for animals if you’re mean enough to ruin them. Each one can be easily read in one sitting. Or one bathing. […]

the catch gets harder — dusk levels distinctions between grass and frog (Cross-posted to Summer Haiku 2007) More Links: Here are Other Evening Haiku, Kigo (season indicators so we can avoid explictly saying the season, showing a part of it), and elsewhere a review of Rattle of Bamboo has some exceptionally fresh, dramatic and tight […]

There’s reading online as well of course but paper-wise, my current reading stack is on the edge of out of hand. However whatever the mood of the day I can pull out something I like, Modern and Normal by Karen Solie John Newlove and His Works by Bouglas Barbour Matrix, current issue Full on Jabber […]