Pearl Pirie launches her first poetry collection on Sunday at Dusty Owl;

Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie launches her first trade poetry collection, been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010) on Sunday, November 7, 2010 at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Swizzles on Queen Street, 5pm.

Information from the press' catalogue page:

Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie’s been shed bore, her first trade poetry collection, follows years of a small voice gaining in strength, and in volume, through so much subtle activity and quiet disconnect that by the time she was noticed, she was already everywhere, and already a confident voice. In a poetry built on the strength of play, Pirie’s writing moves at the speed of sound, slipping up against silence. The poems in the collection are eccentric and perceptive. It is an examination of nation telescoping from the immediate macro view and the distance after historical calm. The combination of landscape poems and plunder makes for an original take on our world.

The poems in the collection are eccentric and perceptive. It is an examination of nation telescoping from the immediate macro view and the distance after historical calm. The combination of landscape poems and plunder makes for an original take on our world.

"that right blend of feverish and yet clear at once, not descending into either facile or noise."
— Roland Prevost

"Intricate gamesmanship + hardy ideas. A knockout combination."
— Marcus McCann 

 Check out www.chaudierebooks.blogspot.com for further updates, reviews, readings and other information, including a reading with myself and Gregory Betts on November 10 in St. Catherine's Ontario; email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com for information on obtaining a review copy or to interview the author.