will lead us in how to leverage traditional poetry techniques to make our modern poetry even better.
BIO: Pearl Pirie is an editor and an award winning Quebec poet.
Awards & Honours: footlights was shortlisted for the Lampman Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and nominated for the A.M. Klein.
the pet radish, shrunken (book*hug, 2015), won the Lampman Award.
Thirsts (Snare/
Invisible, 2011) won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her poems have been given the nod for
Best Canadian Poetry in English 3 times.
Poet profile at the Haiku Foundation.