Now on 28lb paper in colour. Guy Simser has written a suite of war poems including, Srebrenica Fruit of the Balkans dug up from under plum trees wrist-bound and bootless They will be at Haiku North America and the Ottawa small press fair along with one more title, still to come.
Author Archives: Pearl
Ottawa Literary and Book Scene
I was asked by a local writer if Ottawa has anything literary going on. Once, after a decade writing here, I hadn’t noticed the Ottawa’s Writers Fest. Then once I did, literary was increasingly everywhere. Literary Tourist has a lot of nodes for here including bookstores and libraries but there’s much more. Festivals: We have […]
95books, list 15, more history than mystery, 120-125
I’ve been poking away at various local histories. Finished a couple. It’s good to clean the palate with straight-up language. Poetry can try to be difficult and claim the art is the being difficult. It’s touching earth to have people talk about events and people instead of ideas. I say I don’t read novels and […]
95books, list 14, poetry habit and a touch of science, 115-119
Putting your poetry into the stream of culture and literature takes either guts or naivety. Maybe both. But one does it because one must. It’s an art, it’s a science, a compulsion and derived from pulse. 115. Trout Stream Creed by David Carpenter (Coteau Books, 2003) (found at a bookstore in Saskachewan) Write about what […]
95books, list 13, poetry habit, 107-114
Well, I’ve gone and done it again. By time I do a round up of what I read the start of the list is starting to fade from memory. Complicated by my computer battery kacking, attention divided and my iphone frying and with it photos of pages I did take. Ach. Some weeks, I tell […]