Warm up before the Writers Festival with this in-person poetry reading at Perfect Books, 258A Elgin Street. Monday, Oct. 17, 7 pm. 7 Ottawa Poets read from their recent Aeolus House books: Miller Adams, Mary Lee Bragg, Brian Cameron, Blaine Marchand, Colin Morton, Claudia Coutu Radmore, and JC Sulzenko. And if you didn’t catch this […]
Author Archives: Pearl
On reviews
About a month ago at periodicities, Phil Hall mused on reviews, “the absence of negative reviews might be why we are coming to have no reviews at all… What if I wrote one generic blurb with blank spaces for each new author’s name and book title—this would undermine the intent of having a blurb on […]
Nelson Ball Prize Longlist
The press release is out. The Nelson Ball Poetry Prize longlist has been announced. From about 100 submissions, my little chapbook made this cut with some very fine chapbooks and books, Lines – Cameron Anstee (St. Andrew Books) Undoing Hours – Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions) wind – Guy Ewing (Puddles of Sky Press) a grain of sand – Helen […]
Checking In: With Grant Wilkins
Grant Wilkins may be familiar to you through sound poetry performance. [“A very small bunny!” or duotones.] Or through book making places where he sells handmade paper and letterpress things. He avowed a couple decades ago that he was a poetry appreciator, not a poet. The sandstone of observation gradually crumbled into being a maker […]
Checking In: With Nedjo Rogers
Nedjo Roger’s often politically engaged poetry and songwriting pursue glimpses of transcendence in the everyday. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Canadian Literature, SubTerrain, Contemporary Verse 2, and Class Collective, among others journals and online publications, and in various chapbooks including In Air/Air Out in 2011. PP: It’s been a minute since we last connected. What are […]