The next Poetea/Poesie on July 19 at 7pm in le greenroom, Wakefield. Julie Le Gal has agreed to be the featured reader. And again it will be the opportunity for folk to bring a favourite poem to share and/or one of their poems, or just enjoy an evening of spoken word.

Only 1 copy of a few remains. Unless otherwise stated, I’m the author.

Your last chance to get a copy of these 14 titles:

• Pent Up (AngelHouse, 2009) $5
• If (phafours press, 2013) $5
• A Wall’s Sharp White (phafours/Tree Press, 2011) $5
• Chromatic Beliefs (phafours/Tree Press, 2011) $5
• Where There’s Fire (phafours, 2013) $12
• Please don’t tickle the salamander’s belly (In/Words, 2015) $10
• Sourdough Collaboration (phafours, 2015) $5
• cough of a sloth by Claudia Radmore (phafours, 2017) $5
• in session: a brief statement of the facts and the interactions of various companies and people by Dalton Derkson (phafours, 2016) $5
• Not quite Dawn (Éditions des petits nuages, 2020) $12
• Occasionally rational human by Stephen Brockwell (phafours, 2019) $10
• Saviour of the western wor(l)d (phafours, 2018) $5
• between stations (obvious epiphanies press, 2010) $15
• Water Loves its Bridges (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2020) $15

Package deal: Buy the whole lot for $60 plus shipping.

Email me by gmail or FB or what have you pearl.pirie and we can figure out paypal or etranfer or cheque.

Like above/ground and all the poetry plentitude rob mclennan does? Like my poetry? Now you can support both in one swoop for $30. One package gone, 6 more to go…

The above/ground 30th anniversary fundraiser to keep the poetry coming is on for 2 more weeks.

There are many bundles, Hugh Thomas, Chicago poets, Toronto poets, visual poets, “a heartfelt support package” where you give $20 but don’t need to find more room to put anything, and loads more.

I guess since Facebook isn’t for everyone’s taste and it isn’t on my server, I’ll share a few photos from the Ottawa small press fair here as well.

I didn’t go around systematically photographing each person and booth this time, to the relief of at least a couple exhibitors.

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Michael e. Casteels was there, and Shreeking Violet, above/ground, Grunge Papers and a bunch more new and regulars.

Next time: November, Jack Purcell. I hit my limit of $120 spent and took in a good amount too.