Pearl Pirie is a well-known Ottawa poet.
Her poetry collections include: Thirsts (Snare, 2011), Mammals of Hoarfrost (Corrupt Press, 2011), Between Stations (epiphany press, 2011), been shed bore (Chaudiere, 2010) over my dead corpus (AngelHouse, 2010) and b
oath
ouse (above/ground, 2008). Her haiku appear in various collections and broadsheets.
In 2008, Pearl was one of Tree’s Hot Ottawa Voices. Pearl’s blog, Humanyms , which she subtitles “a verbal sketchpad of being positively human” has been widely followed since 2003. Pearl's poetry blog, pesbo, has been running since 2005. Since 2009 she has coordinated the Tree Seed Poetry Workshop Series.
Her author site is pearlpirie.com