Author Archives: Pearl

The annual regatta reading is coming Dec 27th, an office party for Ottawa poets. A new venue, a coffee shop/art gallery showroom in the midst of residential neighbourhood. As usual lovingly hosted by our own rob mclennan,This time The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading will be at Anina’s Café, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, OttawaSaturday, […]

Salon of the Refused: Ottawa When: Monday, December 15, 2025 – 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Bytown Museum 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa REFUSÉS Salon of the Refused Jeremiah Bartram Frances Boyle Ann Cavlovic Gillie Griftin Doua Hreiche Jen Jakob Margo Lapierre Debra Martens Pearl Pirie Lauren Radey David Stymeist Amy Tector

Each chapbook is its own path to read, or write, or publish. There are a lot of stages to publishing a chapbook. Most, if not all, are invisible from the outside. This fall I’ve been making Crime & Ornament by Tamsyn Farr, her debut chapbook. Most of the calendar-time was finding/lucking into writing that resonates. Then […]

Ottawa small press fairThis Saturday Nov 22, 12-5pm at Paul Brown Arena, near downtown, a book fair. Launching title of Tamysn Farr’s first chapbook Crime & Ornament at the phafours table. Salon the of RefusedSalon the of Refused at the Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa on December 15, 7pm-9pm, with locals Poetea orgsnizer Gillie Griffin, and Pearl […]

I genrally am consuming 20-30 books in parallel. In this snapshot I present current top of pile reads, with a menu pairing of recent meals. Where and When Am I? In the 2300s, mostly a city on Mercury, on Saturn and Jupiter’s moons and transit between in: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, 2012) Menu: […]