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    pet radish, shrunken, the

    By Pearl Pirie

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    In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board.

    the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, quirky, and clear-seeing collection speaks in a range of styles and voices: From a military convoy of turtles, to a Kafkaesque conversation with a houseful, to the dissection of a fruit machine, Pirie offers oulipo found speech as it integrates and disintegrates, plays with and tumbles through language.

    Earning comparisons to Jenny Sampirisi's Croak and Leigh Kostilidis's Hypotheticals for their shared sense of linguistic playfulness and curiosity, the pet radish, shrunken will appeal to exploring minds who are ready to question language, society, and self while not minding a taint of grief and comedy that necessarily creeps in around the edges.
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    Release dateMar 5, 2015
    ISBN9781771661126
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    Pearl Pirie

    Pearl Pirie is a queer concussed writer living in rural Quebec. Her poetry collection, the pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015) won the Archibald Lampman Award. Her manuscript Thirsts won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was published in 2011. Her first trade collection was been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010). Her poems have been included in Best Canadian Poetry in English twice, and have appeared in various anthologies. Her newest chapbooks are Call Down the Walls (Frog Hollow Press, 2019), Eldon, letters (above/ground, 2019), Not Quite Dawn (Éditions des petits nuages, 2020) and forthcoming, Water loves its bridges: Letters to the dead (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2020). She runs phafours press, Chalkpaths manuscript editing service, and Studio Nouveau workshops. Pearl lives in Wakefield, Quebec.

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      pet radish, shrunken, the - Pearl Pirie

      THE PET RADISH, SHRUNKEN

      BookThug 2015

      FIRST EDITION

      Copyright © Pearl Pirie, 2015

      cover & title page images by Phil Hall

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts & The Ontario Arts Council.

      LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA

      CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      Pirie, Pearl, author

      The pet radish, shrunken / Pearl Pirie. – First edition.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77166-112-6 (EPUB)

      I. Title.

      PS8631.I78P48 2015     C813’.6     C2015-900469-1

      PRINTED IN CANADA

      about the book

      the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, quirky, and clear-seeing collection speaks in a range of forms and voices: From a military convoy of turtles, to a Kafkaesque conversation with a housefly, to the dissection of a fruit machine, Pirie offers oulipo found speech as it integrates and disintegrates, plays with and tumbles through language.

      Earning comparisons to Jenny Sampirisi’s Croak and Leigh Kostilidis’s Hypotheticals for their shared sense of word play and curiosity, the pet radish, shrunken will appeal to exploring minds who are ready to question language, society, and self while not minding a taint of grief and comedy that necessarily creeps in around the edges. This is poetry for those who love a sense of serious linguistic playfulness.

      an eggshell, all edge

      this waiting hour had no beginning

      will have no omega until something happens.

      a period of a comma of a

      yolk spills, a yellow 9, turned 6

      we’ve cracked un neuf.

      tension floats on an albumen spacer.

      what will turn visible

      given desire enough

      what can stave off

      what passes as ache

      this hunger may be let be.

      maybe this is the wind

      how the pre-rain chill

      how the drill & leaf blower

      to the north the power saw

      to the east are all

      silenced as cicadas

      as the rain.

      while chokecherries fall

      the serenading tv & computer screens sing

      bombs, toss some open threats & insomnia aids.

      some words change the spine like a clapper. alexander

      technique & my shoulders roll against their knots.

      and how’s my favourite allergen today? purr.

      jump up. gimme a sneeze I’d need a weight belt for.

      has the door swollen out of plumb? shoulder it open.

      like me it bends in the middle with a grunt.

      some

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