Words(on)Pages Chapbook spring launches, Toronto! April 20, 2016, 7-9pm, 6:30 door. That’s Upstairs at The Central, 603 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2L7 FB event page A triple launch: Brady Tighe’s debut chapbook, Bottling the Lead Singer of the Mountain Goats, Adam Zachary’s Bodies Vs. and Pearl Pirie’s An Ongoing Lack of Spontaneous Combustion, An Ongoing Lack […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Doyali Islam
Coming up on Thursday on Literary Landscape, a conversation with Doyali Islam who is part of the Arc event at VERSeFest. Hear more ahead at her 12 or 20 interview with rob mclennan. That’s be at 6:30pm EST, 3:30pm PST on March 3rd at CKCU. 3 weeks ago I was with Rachel Rose, who is poet […]
VERSeFest
Centretown Buzz has VERSeFest coverage. The site and schedule is up and advance passes are for sale. 60+ poets for $50. Can’t even get gum for that rate and you don’t take the gum home either. March 15-20th. Coming up fast. Some of the poets from in, across and out of Canada: David McGimpsey, Marilyn Dumont, […]
95books, 2016
I post the 2016 reads on twitter (@pesbo). I used to heavily hyperlink the summary posts but that add 3x the time. Maybe links mean that publishers and writers can more readily find mention of what they sent into the world. Or maybe trackback isn’t common as it used to be. This much I can say […]
Chris Faiers
Coming up today on Literary Landscape, a talk with Chris Faiers who published perhaps the first haiku chapbooks in Canada in the 60s, started Unfinished Monument Press in the 70s, ran the Main Street Library Series in Toronto in the 70s and 80s bringing in 60-70 poets, and Purdyfest in Purdy country in 2000s. He […]