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Pearl Pirie

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Fourth Collection footlights (Radiant Press)

My third collection, the pet radish, shrunken (book*hug, 2015) won the Lampman Award.

author site:
www.pearlpirie.com

I'm most active on twitter as pesbo.
See also patreon.com/pearlpiriepoet
and instagram.com/PearlPiriePoet

on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/29603462
a 2012 reading from Thirsts, been shed bore and Mammals of Hoarfrost at Poets Live in Paris. Fellow readers with Peter Hughes and Bonny Finberg. ...more

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Pearl Pirie Writing is putting symbols to a page. Start in order to get over the hump of starting, continue past your own resistance, form a habit of paying atten…moreWriting is putting symbols to a page. Start in order to get over the hump of starting, continue past your own resistance, form a habit of paying attention to what you pay attention to, record your blind spots as well as your focal points. Transcribe someone else's words. Work a form. Substantially edit something. The original can't be harmed and if you already are closed, the worse that can happen is to remain closed. But you might open, or learn or play. Lower the stakes on your own game while bringing it up by keeping at it.(less)

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Pearl Pirie Writing is formally setting aside the time to complete all the thoughts that we all have, and may even complete inside our heads. Can you know you und…moreWriting is formally setting aside the time to complete all the thoughts that we all have, and may even complete inside our heads. Can you know you understand or really don't understand something until you express it? It is a luxury in the way any developed skill is. A gymnast who shows what the body we are all given is capable of, a carpenter who with universal spatial skills can build something that any of us could if we devoted the years to the rough shape and fine nuance of skills. It is an indulgence to do what you must instead of living in as much compromise as possible.(less)

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	footlights 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	the pet radish, shrunken 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirsts 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	been shed bore by Pearl Pirie (Goodreads Author), Rob Mclennan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
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