Did you miss Daniel Zomparelli of CantLit and Poetry is Dead with JM? That’s on playback here. The week previous it was me with Avonlea Fotheringham on workshopping and editing poems. Speaking of which she is leading a Tree workshop on Sept 8 as the new season begins after that with Moritz at 8. Speaking […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Stats Check
Stats check: Chapbooks are running at 16% of total. 1/3 of what I read is current 2014/2015. When not reading poetry (3/4 of the time), it’s a 3-way tie between essays, memoir & history. After that, science, novels and business. I went back and gave a starred system— which I probably will never share per […]
Arc Poetry Magazine announces Lampman Award finalists
Each year, Arc Poetry Magazine honours Ottawa poets. Arc is proud to present the three finalists for the $1500 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for an outstanding book of poetry by a National Capital author. The award is named in honour of Archibald Lampman (1861 – 1899), one of Canada’s finest nineteenth-century poets. Lampman moved to […]
Incoming
One for the eyes, Clean Sails by Gustave Morin is coming this fall, Gustave Morin has gathered up dozens of typewriters on their so–called dying legs, modified several of them with the addition of hand–crafted custom typeheads and, by driving these jalopies to the very limits of their capabilities, wrenched from them one last spin […]
95books, list 12: local history & literary histories
The problem with lists rather than real time is the fall-off of memory and the books getting re-scattered. 102. Ottawa’s Farm: A History of the Central Experimental Farm by Helen Smith (General Store Publishing, 1996) Got at St. Vincent de Paul Thift store. This was full of fascinating stories and details about the development of […]