Fall Events
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Chapbooks left, right and off-centre.
The summer was all stop. 4-way. All-way. Life in its omnidirectional habit veered in and displaced writing. I'd decided last November that I had to go to less readings, no more workshops until I found centre again. I pared back and pulled back. When you overdo things, the joy slips away. The actions become habit and self-imposed necessity rather than choice. Stepping right out I read and did housing-fix up things and spent time with hubby.
I stopped tea with friends but that will come back soon. Giving readings were all on hiatus. Soon they'll be back.
In November 3 or 4 new titles from phafours come out and Shreeking Violet Press is putting out my chapbook Reviews of Non-existent Titles. Later in the month In/Words is due to put out Please Don't Tickle the Salamander's Belly, which was an outcrop from Michele Provost's project. There'll be a launch reading of that Nov 25th.
In December I'll be doing a few readings in Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa. Check out the author site for those details.
Over at my author site www.pearlpirie.com there's a new addition or two to poems, to the radish section (wonderful reviews) and to the interviews section. The CKCU tab has an archive of the Literary Landscape shows I've done. It's funding drive time at CKCUfm.com. We turn 18, the station 40. We raised half the show's target in the first week. Hopefully we can raise the last $200 or so this week. Toss a shekel if you can or luck if you can't.
The fall small press fair is coming the afternoon of Nov 7th at the Jack Purcell Community Centre. The chapbook on the left will be among a few offerings from phafours, along with Moon and Fish from Terry Ann Carter and War is the Father of Us All by Guy Simser.
I'll be having the first ever phafours sale that day with half-off for some back titles including Cocoa Cabin and Where There's Fire. I'll have a pamphet of my tanka and haiku to give away for free, Shreeking Violet Press has a chapbook by me as well. You won't want to miss any of that!
95books challenge updates at the poetry/poetics blog pesbo. I'm at book 171. Actually I'm reading a few at a time: A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer by George Bowering (Key Porter, 2001), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (Penguin, 1981), The Odyssey by Homer, trans by Samuel Butler (1900), How to Tell a Story: The Secrets of Writing Captivating Tales by Peter Rubie and Gary Prevost (Writers Digest Books, 1998), The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida, trans by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell (Knoff, 2007), Forecast: Selected Early Poems (1970-1990) by John Pass (Harbour Publishing, 2015) and Death with Interruptions, José Saramago trans. Margaret Jull Costa (Harcourt, 2007)
Until next time, keep reading and keep writing,
Pearl