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Readings & Appearances – past, present and future (in newest-oldest date order):
- Nov 11, 2021 – li vestreamed launch of issue 5, Channel magazine; I read two of my poems: “Penumbra” and “Gravy”.
- Feb 19-21, 2021 – Virtual Seedy Saturday; my video Wild Bees featured my own photographs of bees native to Vancouver Island with a reading of my poem “Wild Bees”.
- Feb 18, 2021 – Arrivals/Departures with Rhona McAdam = an interview on the Planet Poetry podcast.
- Dec 3, 2020 – Zoom BC launch of We Are One: Poems from the Pandemic, hosted by Poets Corner, Vancouver.
- September 24, 2020 – Zoom reading from Sweet Water: Poems for the Watershed.
- March 29, 2018 – reading from Writing Menopause anthology, Vancouver Public Library.
- June 23-27, 2015 in Moscow Idaho: at the ASLE biennial conference; panelist (Rhizomorphic Resonances: Underground EcoActivisms in Life and in Literature) and at the Authors Reception.
- Sunday December 20, 2015, read my poem “Solstice” at Lights on the Gorge solstice celebrations.
- Sunday May 10, 2015 at Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia: I’ll be introducing and reading Maxine Kumin‘s work at the Dead Poets Reading Series.
- Wednesday April 29, 2015 reading: gather at Haliburton Community Organic Farm for a Food, Farming & Fishing Free Range Poetry Buffet at Haliburton Community Organic Farm, with Rhona McAdam, Brian Brett, Linda Rogers and Dennis Reid.
- Saturday April 25, 2015: Poets Converse With Street Art – a poem walking tour sponsored by the City of Victoria, Greater Victoria Public Library and Open Space Gallery. Hosted by Poet Laureate Yvonne Blomer and Youth Poet Laureate Zoé Duhaime, with guest poets Wendy Morton, Garth Martens, Rhona McAdam and Daniel G. Scott.
- Wednesday April 8, 2015 Read Local BC event, Poetry Without Borders, at Munro’s Books in downtown Victoria. Reading by local poets Rhona McAdam Patrick Friesen, Beth Kope and Inge Israel.
- Wednesday February 18, 2015 reading/neighbourhood launch of Ex-ville at Gorgeous Coffee, 300 Gorge Rd W, Victoria BC
- Tuesday January 27, 2015 featured reader, with Rebecca Perry, at CB1 Poetry in Cambridge. Gonville Hotel, Gonville Place, Cambridge CB1 1LY.
- Wednesday January 21, 2015, reading with Tamar Yoseloff and Sue Rose, at the Travelling Through Bookshop, 131 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE.
- Wednesday January 14, 2015, reading with Tania Hershman, Loose Muse, Poetry Society in Covent Garden, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.
- Wednesday January 7, 2015 reading with the Telltale Poets – Peter Kenny, Catherine Smith, Siegfried Baber and Robin Houghton at the Poetry Society in Covent Garden, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.
- November 26, 2014 at 7pm: reading at the Fat Oyster Reading series, with Des Kennedy and Bruce Rice, at Fanny Bay Hall, at 7793 Island Highway, Fanny Bay, BC.
- November 21 2014 at 8pm Read from my new poetry collection Ex-ville (published November 2014, Oolichan Books) at Planet Earth Poetry, Hillside Coffee & Tea, Victoria BC.
- Reading and book signing at Ten Old Books just down the street from the Duncan farmers market on Saturday August 10, 2013.
- Book signing at the Fairhaven Farmers Market followed by a reading at Village Books in Fairhaven Wednesday June 12, 2013. (See poster for details)
- Read at the anthology launch of Untying The Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s, at Planet Earth Poetry, Victoria, Friday May 17, 2013.
- Read at the anthology launch of Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press), at Planet Earth Poetry, Victoria, April 12, 2013.
- Panelist talking about food writing at the Malahat Review’s WordThaw event on Saturday March 23, 2013 at the University of Victoria.
- Read poetry plus prose from Digging the City at Planet Earth Poetry, Victoria, 22 March 2013, with visiting poet Rosemary Griebel.
- Read from Digging the City at the fabulous Village Books in Fairhaven, Bellingham WA on Sunday Feb 3.
- Discussion/presentation with the Victoria Horticultural Society’s Fruit & Vegetable Group on Monday January 28, 2013, on the topic Seeds of Community: Seed saving and community seed banks.
- I had a great time talking about Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto with Stephen Whipp’s Ethical Investing clients on 8th December, 2012.
- Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto was also present at the marvellous Victoria Stone Soup event, 2nd December 2012, at The Odd Fellows Hall in Victoria (see blog posting here)
- Launch: Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto at the Cornerstone Cafe, on November 27, 2012.
- I presented Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto at the Heritage House Publishing Author Celebration in Victoria on November 22, 2012.
- Book talk on Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto. Saanich Centennial Library, Victoria. September 2012.
- I organized a panel discussion and baking workshop for Andrew Whitley’s visit to Victoria September 2012.
- Presenter (Gardens as Repositories of Local Food Memory) at ALECC Biennial Conference: Space + Memory = Place. University of British Columbia, Okanagan and Okanagan College, Kelowna and Penticton, BC, August, 2012
- Poetry reading: An Evening of Canadian Poetry, Vancouver Public Library, Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level, Central Library 350 West Georgia Street March, 2012 (with Ruth Roach Pierson and ED Blodgett).
- Talk: CSA: The Acronym of Our Time at Ideawave 2012, Ambrosia Centre, 638 Fisgard Ave, Victoria. February, 2012.
- Malahat Review Fall Launch, Victoria: November 2011
- Tonight It’s Poetry, Saskatoon: April, 2011
- Vertigo Poetry series, Regina: April, 2011
- Reid-Thompson Public Library, Humboldt: April 2011
- Planet Earth Poetry, Victoria: May, 2011
- “Creative Approaches to Food & Farming” panel, ASLE, Bloomington, June, 2011
Recently published prose:
- Apples! Are They Still Keeping the Doctor Away? in Alive Magazine, August 2014.
- Review of Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson, in Small Farm Canada, March/April 2014.
- A Last Bite of Summer: The Flavour Gourmet Picnic. EAT Magazine (October 2012).
- A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World from Lonely Planet;
- Dealing with Wireworms. Small Farm Canada (Nov/Dec 2011)
- Prime Pollinators: More than honeybees in the fields; and Will Allen’s Powerful Message: Growing out of poverty. Small Farm Canada (March/April 2011).
Poetry recently published in:
- Acumen; Alimentum; Antigonish Review; Channel; CuiZine; CV2; Descant; The Malahat Review; Poetrymagazine.com; Prism International; Small Farmer’s Journal; Vallum (including an audio version of The Phantom Bus)
- Deep Waters: Rivers, Lakes & Seas anthology, Outrider Press.
- The Earth’s Kitchen, a tasty chapbook of food poetry from Leaf Press
- First Sixty: the Acumen anthology, 2010, Patricia Oxley, Ed.
- Going Behind the Scenes: Education at Kettle’s Yard.
- Poems from Planet Earth: the Planet Earth Poetry anthology, from Leaf Press January 2013.
- Prism International, Food issue, 2013.
- Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry, Mothertongue Press, 2008; Mona Fertig, Harold Rhenisch, editors.
- Sweet Water: Poems for the Watershed, Yvonne Blomer, ed., Caitlin, 2019.
- Sunday Dinners, a chewy little interactive collection designed by Calgary artist Colleen Philippi, from JackPine Press
- Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s, edited by Lorri Neilsen Glenn; from Guernica, 2013.
- Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women from Caitlin Press (proceeds to THS Society of Transition Houses)
- We Are One: Poems from the Pandemic, George Melnyk, ed., Bayeux, 2020.
- Worth More Standing, Christine Lowther, ed., Caitlin Press, 2022.
- Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-fiction Jane Cawthorne and E.D. Morin eds. Inanna, 2017.
Cartography (poetry) was published March 2006 by Oolichan Books
Digging the City (nonfiction) was published October 2012 by RMB
Ex-ville (my 6th full length collection of poetry) was published November 2014 by Oolichan Books.

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