Pearl Pirie Blog
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Pirie is a promising writer, giving you her best collections of poems & prose. She is a published poet with over 100 copies sold for a 2020 collection, Called 'Footlight'. Her poems have been given the nod for Best Canadian Poetry in English 3 times.
Pearl Pirie Blog
4d ago
A month or so ago, shared titles completed as first instalment of Read in the Head, (the RITH is gonna get you?). New name for #95books I guess. From where I left off, with the third in bold being my favourites, which isn’t to say the others weren’t interesting. They held my interest long enough ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1w ago
I’m going to try to share a few things again of interest to other writers. It’s my week-anniversary of feeling lousy and another headache is rising, but I’ll post while I can. * The schedule for VerseFest, spring 2025, running March 25-29th is now up. It’s at venues around the city. * An informal writing ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1w ago
Pinhole Press spring series chapbooks! Each title is also available for preorder now on the website. ‘Chroma,’ by Gary Barwin & Elee Kraljii Gardiner (cover design by the poets themselves). ‘Love’s Little Dojo,’ by Jordan Williamson. ‘we astronauts,’ by Pearl Pirie. ‘DTES Watching,’ by Pari Mokradi (cover photograph by the poet ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
A resumé of Émile Nelligan in 10 minute video. He made his opus, then was institutionalized mad for decades. At this time dementia and convenience of family put people in such asylums and it was guarded by former guards and policemen more than by nurses, at least in Ireland’s equivalent. So many gaps in knowledge ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
I mean to get to listening to all this John Newlove recording from 1968. * Watching 2009’s Hamlet. It makes so much more sense to have a man stagger and cower than a page’s exclamation mark. MacBeth is listed at Cineplex but with no showtimes even though worldwide release was Feb 5 and it’s showing ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
I have a resources page where I share stuff. Just added is a checklist for what to bring when you table at a book fair. There are also tips for authors photos, how to run a reading series, templates for chapbooks, a spreadsheet template for logging your reading. * In the further framing commercial scarcity ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
I am trying to read more in translation, more from earlier times, some for poetry research, more from people with different life experiences. I aim to finish up books started months ago. Every day, some reading, some new writing and some editing. Those are the goals. I’ll bold those I’d particularly recommend. The only I ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
Why not organic poetry with artisanal salt? Where does creation and the superstructure of Arts? Canada Council says “Together we bring the arts to life” and in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Robin Wall Kimmerer says we need to stop modelling from default scarcity and instead to default abundance and a ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
Tidbits: Andrea Gibson on eye contact. There’s an above/ground poetry chapbook sale. 4 chaps/$20 (postage included), 10 for $40 + shipping, any 24 titles for $80 etc. I’d recommend: mine of course, and Ben Robinson, melissa eleftherion, Ken Norris, Lori Anderson Moseman, Kyle Flemmer, issues of Guest, Jason Heroux, Hugh Thomas, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Monty ..read more
Pearl Pirie Blog
1M ago
Vixen’s The Season of the Haunt by Sandra Ridley has a group. 35 voices, interwoven with hers. The video-poem is now up on YouTube ..read more