Pearl Pirie is a Quebec poet and editor. She is the English book reviews editor of Haiku Canada Review and of ShoHyōRan in 2026 and the coordinator of the Betty Drevniok Haiku Award.
News: A poem included in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku for 2025. Forthcoming in The Fiddlehead Periodicities and Hills’ Almamach des Collines. New chapbooks: Two Timing: a two-person renga by Pearl Pirie and Chandra (In House Press, 2026) Heat Lamp (above/ground press, Dec 2025) and We Astronauts (Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2025).
Newest from phafours press: Crime and Ornament by Tamsyn Farr (Nov 2025).
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Awards & Honours: Her fourth full poetry collection, footlights (Radiant Press, 2020) is about “finding small beauties.”It was shortlisted for the Lampman Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and nominated for the A.M. Klein. rain’s small gestures (Apt 9 Press, 2021), minimalist poems, won the 2022 Nelson Ball Prize. 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. She has a poet profile at the Haiku Foundation.
Support her at Patreon & see behind the scenes poem drafts. Or drop by Substack and read essays on poetics.
Thanks and appreciation to the Canada Council for the Arts for a 2021 Explore and Create Research and Creation Literature Grant. It encourages and assists. And much appreciation to CALQ for a research and creation literature grant for 2022. Gratitude for the 2023 D.C. Reid poetry grant and previous years from the OAC and the City of Ottawa.
