David Dollin: A Celebration of Life Thursday May 14th, 2015 5 – 8 PM Christ Church Cathedral Hall Those of you who have been part of our writers festival community for many years may have noticed an absence in our bookstore this spring. Our bookseller, David Dollin has been a member of our festival team […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Upcoming Events
Wed, May 2, 2015, Authors for Indies Day, Ottawa I’ll be on hand at Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa for Authors for Indies Day — over the course of the day from 10 a.m. onwards will be: Rachel Eugster, Allison Van Diepen, Susan Delacourt, Susan Atkinson, and Pearl Pirie. Chat with some of […]
Sound Poetry Tonight
Platform Gallery, 51 A Young Street (around the corner from g101) will have abstract art by Dan Sharp, Ted Willis and Georgia Mathewson. During the evening there will be a performance of The Quatuor-Gualuor a sound poetry group around 8pm tonight, April 30th. jw curry, Georgia Mathewson, Rachel Lindsey and Brian Pirie. For She Was […]
Petrie Island rout/e installation
Friends of Petrie Island on Facebook has given an update on the poems put up at Petrie island as part of rout/e which I mentioned in October. The poems are put on stakes behind plexiglass in a park/recreation area. The idea is ephemeralness, to plant poetry in the wild for the wild and world to […]
Authors for Indies Day
Authors for Indies Day is coming Saturday May 2. There are now 113 bookstores hosting 547 authors across Canada. Local stores, everywhere. Fiction writers, poets, non-fiction authors… Here’s the Ontario’s list. If you’re by Almonte, try Mill Street Books, 52 Mill Street. It’s got a beautifully curated set of books so I always get a treasure […]