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Category archives: phafours press news

Poems: Rod Pederson

This now exists, with copies still being folded and cut. To come out fully at the phafours table at the Ottawa Small Press Fair, upstairs at Jack Purcell by Elgin St. June 7th. The 6 wonderful little potent poems by Rod Pederson includes this one: bent into untimely sorrow knowing someday he’ll die and I […]

Posted byPearlMay 16, 2014Posted inphafours press news, PSA, Poetry1 Comment on Poems: Rod Pederson

Poems: Catherine Brunet

New chapbook by Catherine Brunet at the reading tonight. 7:30pm, Pressed Café. I’ll bring 20 copies so get it while you can. Here’s a sample poem from it: John Coltrane Redux Avant-guard jazz on my ride home: saxophone incursions deep into John Deere clang and guitar twang of country-western territory. Coltrane would get punched in […]

Posted byPearlMay 15, 2014Posted inphafours press news, PSA, PoetryLeave a comment on Poems: Catherine Brunet

The Squirrel has Landed

This chapbook hatched over supper conversations after a Versefest event in March 2013. Janice Tokar said something about squirrels wearing Stetsons, and Carol Stephen said something about goats on Mars. It was on. Fast-forward a month and I have a call out. Flyers are going around the spring Ottawa small press fair, thanks to Amanda […]

Posted byPearlNovember 7, 2013Posted inphafours press newsLeave a comment on The Squirrel has Landed

Some Things with Certainty

Previously and soon to be published in Freefall, The Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review and Descant, Sneha Madhavan-Reese‘s poetry has been popping up at the Tree Reading Series. The assembly of x-books is still underway but it will at the Ottawa Small Press fair June 15th, noon to 4pm at the Jack Purcell Community Centre.

Posted byPearlJune 5, 2013Posted inphafours press newsLeave a comment on Some Things with Certainty

Assembling an If

Some lovely Tibetan recycled hemp paper, accordion folded into sections, edges wet and torn. Long armed stapler putting to good use again. Drat, if you can read that and have your copy already, please correct the wabi sabi in the 4th line to then, not when. *sigh*. But love how the pockets turned out. (Reading […]

Posted byPearlJune 5, 2013Posted inphafours press newsLeave a comment on Assembling an If

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