Pearl Pirie’s 4th poetry collection, footlights, is “ lyric grief-work, and joy-work, loss, resilience and finding small beauties”. It releases in October 2020. Preorder to receive it first! Show me you and your copy and I’ll send you book swag: footlights: the colouring book. Ask your local library for copies. Give it for all the seasonal holidays! Review it and […]
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Rather than list them all, the best of the year so far: Science The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D (2014). Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Random House, 2020) Poetry Low Centre of Gravity by Michael Dennis (Anvil Press, 2020) Moonflowers: Pioneering Women […]
Review: A Song of Milestones
A Song of Milestones by Jennifer Wenn, (Harmonia Press, 2019) is a chapbook from Harmonia Press, now an imprint of Beliveau Books (https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/books). A record of the poet’s journey, it is frankly and aptly titled. For its short length, it covers decades to retirement age, but poems are not vague. They zero in on key […]
Buy New Chapbooks!
My newest chapbook is Not Quite Dawn (Éditions des petits nuages, March, 2020). You can email me to get a copy. It is the compilation of 25 years of my best published tanka and haiku, as well as a few new ones. My epistle haibun chapbook, Water loves its bridges comes in Dec 2020 from The Alfred Gustav Press […]
New Interview
I’ve got a new interview up at Talking about strawberries on the art of writing, and reading.