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 Writer for Call and Response #1 The Walls of Jerusalem - Selected Poems and Process Notes (PDF) |
Pearl Pirie's Biography Pearl Pirie's poems have been described this way: "hers is an exactitude of emotions, complicated and questioning-a taut balance of tension and joy, abandon and restraint." It is characteristic of her poetry to "find that right mix of slippage and balance". Her first trade collection, been shed bore, came out from Chaudiere Books in 2010. www.beenshedbore.com Her manuscript Thirsts won the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative Poetry. Thirsts will come out from Snare Books in 2011. She has a few chapbooks out including: Between Station, (obvious epiphanies press, 2011), over my dead corpus (AngelHouse Press, 2010) and boathouse (above/ground, 2008). Pearl Pirie's writing has appeared in dandelion, This Magazine, The Puritan, ditch, anthology 4 (canadian) (innovative poets), PRECIPICe, at NationalPoetryMonth.ca, Experiment-O and on haiku broadsheets. She makes small chapbooks under the press phafours. For readings, books and chapbooks check out www.pearlpirie.com She has daily self-portraits at http://365-pearl.blogspot.com/ Contact: pearl@pagehalffull.com Visual Meet Word Shows: Aug 5-Sept 5, 2011: Cities of Stone - People of Dust by Leslie Hossack Red Wall Gallery, SPAO A series of poems in response to the photographs of Jewish, Arabic and Muslim lives and landscape as seen thru the lens of Leslie Hossack. Sept 16-19, 2010: Barely Their Blink Gallery A poem sculpture around the ideas of the unreliabilty of memory and shifts in identity thru the stages of life. http://pagehalffull.com/pesbo/2010/09/25/blink-gallery-reading/ Art of: Lynda Cronin, Jean Jewer, Pearl Pirie & Maureen Sandrock. Poems of: Terry Ann Carter, Margot Gallant, Laurie Koensgen, Sean Moreland, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Sandra Ridley, L.M. Rochefort, Rona Shaffran & Gillian Wallace. A chapbook of the same title was released in 2010 by phafours press. http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours Jan 28, 2010: ABSTrACTS/RéSuMÉS: An Exercise in Poetry Ottawa Art Gallery An ekphrastic response to Michele Provost's art performed in cooperation with the Ottawa Art Gallery and The AB Series. Grant Wilkins, Pearl Pirie, John Lavery, Sandra Ridley, Carmel Purkis and jwcurry were participating poets. Back to Call and Response |
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