Turret House Press now has my chapbook available for sale for $7. Or you can buy a whole year of chappies (probabably 6 or so) for $60. It’s also stocked at Phoenix Books Montreal, 5928 Sherbrooke O.
This series of spare poems Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie plucks moments out of time and presents them in a thought-provoking light. Sensuous and playful, empathetic and deeply human, this gem of a chapbook will dazzle and enchant!
Turret House Press blurb of A Couple Sumarians
It passes the sniff test.
It’s mostly love poems. I have copies to buy from me directly too.
Sample poem?
a minute pinned
A Couple Sumarians by Pearl Pirie
it’s not forever
but it’s close
enough to count
the heartbeats
as I watch the future
barrel at me like a child
in a cardboard box
careening down
the stairs.
Also in the summer lineup are two other titles you should probably get:
Hi Pearl!
Minor correction, you get 12 chapbooks in a year for your subscription!!
James Hawes
Turret House Press
Wow! 12! I’m gonna sign me up.