Readings & a Workshop
Hello !
How have you been? I hope you have been treating your life well, and visa versa.Are you writing? What are you reading? Did you know that in Ottawa, you can request 5 book titles a month? What's else is new?
Readings!
Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa: the radish goes on a road trip.
If you or someone you know is around this week, I have an idea.
Sun, Dec 6, 2015, 7:30pm: Hamilton’s Lit Live
Homegrown Hamilton at the Sky Dragon Centre, a pub/café at 27 King William St. Readers: Donna Langevin of The Laundress of Time (Aeolus Press, 2015), Jonathan Ball of John Paisz’s Crime Wave (University of Toronto, 2014), Pearl Pirie of the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015), Ron Schafrcik of Interpreters (Oberon), Maureen Hynes of Poison Colour (Pedlar, 2015) and Ruth Roach Pierson of Realignment (Palimpsest Press, 2015).
Mon, Dec 7, 2015, 6:30pm Toronto: Rowers
Toronto’s monthly Rowers Reading series, 603 Markham Street. Doors open at the Central at 5:30 pm. Readings begin at 6:30pm sharp, evening ends at 8:15pm. Readers: Jonathan Ball, Farzana Doctor, Pearl Pirie and Emily Pohl-Weary.
Tues, Dec 8, 2015, 8pm, Toronto, Art Bar series
Toronto’s Art Bar Series at The Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Avenue, just east of Broadview Subway Station. Readers: Pearl Pirie of the pet radish, shrunken, (BookThug, 2015), Monica Kidd of The Year of Our Beautiful Exile (Gaspereau Press, 2015), and Marsha Barber of What is the Sound of Someone Unravelling (Borealis 2011) and All the Lovely Broken People (Borealis, 2015)
Wed Dec 16, 7-9pm: Sawdust Reading Series, Ottawa
At Pour Boy, 495 Somerset St W. A poem-off competition for who to be the next featured guest with me is over. The winner will be announced soon at twitter @SawdustSeries
the pet radish, shrunken has been getting in the press. 4 reviews this fall! It also has been nominated for a Pushcart Award, a first for me.
Workshop!
in Ottawa
This 8-week Studio Nouveau workshop is for those who want to make time to explore contemporary classic writers. Each workshop includes a segment of discussing poems and techniques, and exercises for eliciting play, curiosity and growth as well as round tabling of participant’s own poems. Close reads of poets Nicole Brossard, David Groulx, Alden Nowlen, Sylvia Legris, Nelson Ball and more.
Towards the end of the series, resources for making chapbooks and finding markets. Comes with a chapbook on writing prompts (“Writing Sparks: 50 paths to poems for when you’re feeling damp”). Inspire your own writing and sense of poetics. Come away with new poets to love, new poems made and older poems strengthened. And optionally, your own first chapbook manuscript.
When? Monday nights for 8 weeks: Jan 11-Feb 29, from 7pm-9pm
Where: Hintonburg area, near transit.
How much: $150 (about $9/hour)
Early bird registrations before Dec 15th get a complementary copy of The Best Canadian Poetry 2015. Reserve a spot. Spaces limited. pearl[at]pagehalffull [dot] com with subject line of “SN workshop”.
Pictured there is the pretty, newest chapbook of mine put out by In/Words. It is some fun odd surreal homophonically translated poems that Mitchell Caplan summarized as a "translator's nightmare". Threads thru the chapbook give a nod to Erin Moure and Anne Carson's books. The launch went well. The launch reading itself got a review here from audience member Chris Johnston.
If you've joined twitter, look me up (@pesbo). If you want to see what I'm reading at pesbo I do a periodic list. I'm over 200 books and chapbooks for the year, the advantage of no day job, no kids.
I expect that in 2016, I'll be sending these less often. If at any time you want to stop, the unsubscribe is at the bottom. If you think someone else would like it, forward away.
So, that's the big news. Other than Christmas and New Years. Hope you have a happy holiday season and not too much stress getting to there. And my your stocking be full of books.
Until next year, keep reading and keep writing,
Pearl