John Barlow and Pearl Pirie
Date:
Friday, December 11, 2009
Doors:
7:30pm
Performance:
8:00pm
Cost:
$7 ($5 students/seniors) admission at the door
Host:
Max Middle 
John Barlow
John Barlow began publishing poetry in magazines and journals in the 1980s. Barlow has authored three collections of poetry, each published by Exile Editions, Safe Telepathy, ASHINEoVSUN and ASHINEoVSUN II. He published a CD/booklet with Balmer Press titled The UFOs of South Toronto and a chapbook with Laurel Reed titled Minus 45: Some Days in Winter and a LYRICALMYRICAL Editions book, Poems and Films.
Pearl Pirie (Photo courtesy of Roland Prevost)
Pearl Pirie has been writing for a couple decades, mostly in or around Ottawa. She does haiku and visual, corpus-based poetry, form and formless. She has been published at ditch,, Ottawater and by AngelHouse Press. Her last chapbook bOATHouse came out from above/ground press in 2008. There's an interview with Ottawa Focus here and a 12 or 20 questions interview there. Her list of published places is here. She blogs for the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter and for herself at pesbo and Humanyms.
On the evening's agenda, another of the A B Series renowned raffle draws with books, gift certificates, movie passes and CD prizes to be won!
And in the spirit of the season, bring donations of books to The Mercury Lounge door. They'll be given to Ottawa's Booth Centre for the programs they run to assist the homeless and other underprivileged people.
The A B Series acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
