Pearl Pirie’s lists, reviews, interviews, etc. since 2005

Author Copies Received!

Radiant sure knows how to make an author feel special with a presentation box, kind words and card.

This was Oct 14th but I forgot about you who are not on Facebook where I shared them.

  • package held in front of mailbox
    footlights has arrived
  • author looking at red tissue paper in box
  • the book cover is embossed!
  • Wow
  • He also has a rubber bee hidden in his mouth pouch, which was retrieved
  • footlights book

I have a few copies. Order from your local, or the press or me. I’ll have to work out postage but it would be about $24 by etransfer.

New chapbook by David Groulx

Crossing a Grave in Harmonium by David Groulx (phafours press, 2020) has 18 deft, moving and lacerating poems. Here’s one:

Daydreaming in Blood

My blood’s red like a star dying

like the marsh inside my veins

the horses, much,

shoulder deep

heaving out

a single thoughts:

blood, a place I sometimes go

$12 including domestic shipping.

Oct 26th he reads at the John Newlove Awards as part of Writers’ Fest online. He will be launching the Bywords publication of What the Haruspex Read in the Small Hours of My Body.

Crossing a Grave in Harmonium by David Groulx
Open chapbook

footlights coming

Pearl Pirie’s 4th poetry collection, footlights, is “ lyric grief-work, and joy-work, loss, resilience and finding small beauties”. It releases in October 2020. Preorder to receive it first! Show me you and your copy and I’ll send you book swag: footlights: the colouring book.

colouring book cover

Ask your local library for copies. Give it for all the seasonal holidays! Review it and view the trailer soon.