Almost a third of what I read was written this year or last with a push over the last couple months to finish up new things. Last year that rate was 57% was the current year. I was aiming to read more classics but 66% of what I read was published in the 15 most […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Favourite Books from 2015
Rating books there’s the immediate buzz of bzzt, a no or a wow, but then 6 months pass and do they stay with you or are long gone? My top more or less 10% favourite reads of 2015: Another world: 300 Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty by Chiang Yee/Jiang Yi — The translation makes […]
95books: List 25: Family in Poetry 207-216
207. Aethel by Donato Mancini (New Star Books, 2007) Got and did not read right off. Tendonitis Androgenous uses a sign language (ASL?) as starting point for textual manipulation. Some such as as the tangle called “What are you reading” or “We Come in Peace” (below) are humourous. Aethel looked like two parallel text, titles […]
Room for 1 more
If you want to take a poetry workshop in January, we’re almost full but there’s room for 1 more, might be room for 2. Deep reads, challenges, and chapbook making. I week left to register.
Fw: Poem Off
One week left to enter this month’s Sawdust Poem-Off! Enter before January 6th for the opportunity to feature alongside Deanna Young on January 20th. This month’s judge is Pearl Pirie! Please send up to 150 lines of poetry in a single .doc attachment to sawdustseries[at]gmail.com, subject line SUBMISSION. Please do not include your name in […]