Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie interviewed in ottawater #7

by Kemptville poet Chris Turnbull; http://www.ottawater.com/

little tiny review of Pearl Pirie's been shed bore,

"The mysterious financial and postal divides were crossed, and I got Pearl Pirie's "Been Shed Bore" from Ottawa.The promos are packed with some very complex tropes and ricochets somewhat like post-av, but inside I found some highly refined linguistic acrobatics, riffing, and lang-flirt as in "just kiss me then":
"...
a tangle, a lip of the tongue,
some flaw in the ointment
the flu in the augment? more/less
the fly in the argyleness,
the flay in the target, bite some
sorry for that sleep of the tonne
..."
Maybe it was the dire week, but the
clever little 10-20 line engines
of brilliant sass hit the spot this weekend."


the rest of his post here; thanks!

Two upcoming Marcus McCann readings, Cobourg + Toronto;

Ottawa/Toronto poet Marcus McCann has two upcoming events:

* Brockton Writers Series (April 6, 7pm. St Anne's Church, 270 Gladstone Ave. Toronto. Free/PWYC.

* Cobourg Poetry Workshop, with Glenda Jackson and Wayne Schlepp, July 21, 2011. Doors at 7:00 pm. Reading at 7:30pm. 66 King St E, Cobourg, ON.

photo credit: Michael Erickson,

Chaudiere author Anita Dolman at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, Jan 16;

Ottawa writer Anita Dolman (featured in Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets) is featured at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday January 16, 5pm; open set and featured reader; see her "12 or 20 questions" here;

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie at the Pivot Reading Series, Toronto

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

8pm-10pm

The Press Club, 850 Dundas Street West, Toronto

The Pivot with Ottawa’s own Pearl Pirie, reading from Been Shed Bore (Chaudiere Books) alongside Carolyn Smart + Adam Seelig; admission free, three featured readers every second Wednesday;

http://www.beenshedbore.com/readings.html
http://www.chaudierebooks.com/books/beenshedbore.html
http://www.pivotreadings.wordpress.com/

2 new Pearl Pirie / been shed bore mentions

including a review by Sandra Stephenson, and a recommendation by Sandra Ridley on the Advent Books Blog.

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie's been shed bore;

first review of Pearl Pirie's been shed bore

now up at the Ottawa X-Press; and an interview with rob mclennan on the Grey Borders Reading Series blog, anticipating their upcoming reading in St. Catharine's, Ontario.

Chaudiere launch; Pearl Pirie's been shed bore, November 7 at Dusty Owl

Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie launches her first poetry collection, been shed bore (Chaudiere Books) at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday, November 7 at 5pm;

Information now lives on the Chaudiere website here; Pearl's own website for such here.

three poems by Pearl Pirie

in This magazine;

Pearl Pirie + rob mclennan read with Gregory Betts + James Milhaven in St. Catharines

The Grey Borders Reading Series Presents...

rob mclennan

Pearl Pirie

Gregory Betts

+ James Milhaven

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:30pm

The Niagara Artists’ Centre 

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines 

905.641.0331  

 

Licensed, pay what you can

http://greyborders.blogspot.com 

 

Pearl Pirie's forthcoming trade collection is been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010). www.beenshedbore.com. Her chapbooks include over my dead corpus (AngelHouse, 2010) and boathouse (above/ground, 2008). She blogs at pesbo, Humanyms, and a few other places. Poems have appeared thru dandelion, ditch, PRECIPICe, 1cent, Ottawater, unarmed, Peter F Yacht Club, Dusie and 17 Seconds, pooka press and gar.  She writes in Ottawa and lives in her head (with outings for chocolate).

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections gifts (Talonbooks), a compact of words (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), wild horses (University of Alberta Press) and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), The Garneau Review (www.ottawater.com/garneaureview) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (www.ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher born in Vancouver, raised in Toronto, now living in St. Catharines, ON. He is the author of four books of poetry including If Language (BookThug 2005), Haikube (BookThug 2006), The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009), and Psychic Geographies and Other Topics (Quattro Press 2010; also as ane-book) as well as several chapbooks and various bits of ephemera.

James Millhaven was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1987. His first chapbook, Edges, was released by Grey Borders Books in July 2010. He is currently working on his second chapbook and a one-act play. He would generally include a witty (or at least half-witty) remark at the end, but this was written at the last minute. Sorry.

Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid featured at the In/Words Reading Series

In/Words Reading Series: October Edition
Wednesday, October 27
9:00pm - 10:30pm@ The Clock Tower Pub, 575 Bank St. (across from The Works)
open set + featured reader Monty Reid
***Will be asking for $1 donation at the door.***
Bean salad to top readers of the night.
Further info at bywords.ca

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann reads at the 2010 John Newlove Poetry Awards

Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading at the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:30 pm- a free event
contact: amanda@bywords.ca

Launch of The Glass Jaw, a poetry chapbook by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.

The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.

Amanda Earl
Managing Editor
www.bywords.ca

another review of Michael Bryson's The Lizard,

from Matthew Firth's Front & Centre;

Anne Le Dressay reads in Ottawa, November 6 at Bridgehead

You are invited to a poetry reading featuring Anne Le Dressay and Mary Lee Bragg on Saturday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. at Bridgehead, 1277 Wellington St.

Anne Le Dressay has been publishing poetry since the 1970's. She has published two books, Old Winter (2007) and Sleep Is a Country (1997), as well as two chapbooks, Woman Dreams (1998) and This Body That I Live In (1979). She has worked as a professor of English Literature and creative writing. She now works for the government and is looking forward to retirement.

Mary Lee Bragg has published short stories in Canadian and American literary journals since the early 1990's, and won the Ottawa Citizen short story contest in 1992.  Her novel Shooting Angels was published in 2004.  Since retiring from the federal public service in 2006, she has begun writing poetry --  "now that I have time to concentrate."  She published a chapbook of poetry titled "How Women Work" in 2010.

This is the second in a new monthly series of coffeehouse events called the "SLOWest Coffee House @ Bridgehead." This event is organized by Sustainable Living Ottawa West ("SLOWest") in collaboration with our neighbourhood Bridgehead coffeeshop at 1277 Wellington St., Ottawa (the one just west of Holland Avenue see map here . Admission will be "pay what you can."

SLOWest is a new voluntary organization that describes itself as "A network in the west end of Ottawa discovering ways to live in an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling way." SLOWest is exploring ways that the community can respond creatively to issues like climate change and "peak oil"; among other things, that means building a sense of neighbourhood and community, and promoting local, low-carbon approaches to daily living. This includes promoting a local arts scene on a human scale.

In a modest way, we’re hoping that the launch of SLOWest’s Bridgehead coffeehouse series (first Saturday of every month) will help our local community rediscover and reinvent the tradition of the coffeehouse as a place of community and connection, and a fertile ground for interesting conversations that matter. The idea is to have a regular, predictable time and place for community members to come together in a relaxed way, be entertained with some music, stories or poetry, and enter into conversations about the things that matter to them.

John Newlove review

in Canadian Literature;

Chaudiere Books at Word on the Street, Toronto!

come visit Chaudiere Books as part of the Literary Press Group table at Toronto's Word on the Street; http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/toronto

2 pre-been shed bore Pearl Pirie readings;

Anticipation for Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie's November 7th launch at the Dusty Owl Reading Series for her first trade poetry collection been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010) continues.

On Thursday, Sept 16th, Pearl Pirie does a reading from selections from the manuscript at 7 pm for the vernissage at Blink Gallery with theBarely Their art show which is a collaborative poetry totem done by Pirie, Jean Jewer, Lynda Cronin and Maureen Sandrock.

On Saturday, Sept 18th, 2 p.m. outside Blink Gallery, a group reading with people including Pearl Pirie, TA Carter, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Sandra Ridley, Rona Shaffran, Sean Moreland, Margo Gallant, LM Rochefort, Gillian Wallace and Laurie Koensgen.

Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid & American poet Lea Graham at Dusty Owl, Ottawa

Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid, author of Disappointment Island (2006) and more recent Luskville Reductions (Brick, 2008) reads at the Dusty Owl Reading Series in Ottawa on Sunday, September 5, 2010 alongside American poet Lea Graham, author of the chapbook Calendar Girls (above/ground press) and the forthcoming first trade collection, Crushes. The Dusty Owl Reading Series, open set & featured reader(s); 5pm, Swizzles Bar & Grill, 246-B Queen Street, Ottawa; 1 block west of Bank Street, underneath the Green Papaya. & check out the above/ground press 17th anniversary reading/launch two nights earlier, hosted by Lea Graham.

Amanda Earl mentions Monty Reid's Disappointment Island (Chaudiere, 2006)

in a list of her favourite contemporary poetry titles;