Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie at the Ottawa Festival, May 1, 2011

Pearl Pirie reads alongside Gillian Sze and Lorna Crozier at the spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival; the poetry cabaret is hosted by Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley; details at the festival website, here.

rob mclennan's The Ottawa City Project (2007); "an old poem embedded in thoughts on my mother"

A piece I wrote on one of the poems from my poetry collection, The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007) now up at Open Book Toronto;

Chaudiere Books at VERSeFest

with my full report, here;

Pearl Pirie interviewed

by Vancouver's Kevin Spenst on editing;

Marcus McCann interviewed (posted online) on CKCU's Literary Landscapes;

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann was interviewed on CKCU's Literary Landscapes yesterday (posted online) by Christine McNair for tonight's McCann/Reid lecture as part of Ottawa's VERSeFest;

Pearl Pirie wins 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award!

details here; congratulations Pearl!