The collection footlights by Pearl Pirie is "œlyric grief-work, and joy-work, loss, resilience and finding small beauties". Her poems have been included in Best Canadian Poetry in English twice. 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 (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2020).