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Readings & Appearances – upcoming, past & present (in newest-oldest date order):
- Saturday December 10, 2022 at 2pm, in-person reading with Gary Geddes and Ann Eriksson at Gabriola Arts and Heritage Centre, 476-510 South Rd, Gabriola, BC V0R 1X2.
- Saturday October 29, 2022 – in-person reading with Nancy Mattson and Caroline Maldonado at St Mary’s Church, Islington, 7pm. Admission by donation; proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya.
- Saturday October 22,2022 at 4pm. In-person reading with Susan Alexander at Christ Church Cathedral,690 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2L1.
- Saturday September 17, 2022 from 2-3:30pm – in-person reading with Heidi Greco at White Rock Public Library, 15342 Buena Vista Avenue, White Rock BC, in celebration of National Organic Week!
- June 15-18, 2022 – at ALECC conference in Saskatoon; in-person reading as part of two Poetry Walks with fellow poets Tanis MacDonald and Ariel Gordon. Our walks were at 2:30pm Thursday 16th and 11:30am Saturday 18th. Details in the conference program.
- Tuesday June 14, 2022 – 7pm in-person reading at McNally Robinson, Saskatoon SK, with Mari-Lou Rowley & Katherine Lawrence.
- Friday June 10, 2022 – in-person reading at Planet Earth Poetry as part of the celebration reading for Poets Caravan; one of nearly 30 poets scheduled to read a poem and celebrate the project.
- Sunday June 5, 2022 – 11am PST – *online* joint launch of Larder – with Mari-Lou Rowley on Zoom, courtesy of Anvil Press & Caitlin Press. The amazing Lisa Pasold will be host for our reading. Recording on Vimeo can be viewed here (gallery view only).
- Saturday May 28, 2022 – 1-3pm – one of a small grove of poets reading to celebrate the publication of Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo BC.
- Friday May 27, 2022 – 7:30 to 9pm – featured reader at Planet Earth Poetry at Russell Books in Victoria.
- Thursday May 12, 2022 – 7pm Fat Oyster in-person reading with Arleen Paré and Kelly Madden, in Fanny Bay BC. grateful thanks to funding provided by the Canada Council through The Writers’ Union of Canada.
- May 6, 2022 – Larder, my 7th poetry collection, published by Caitlin Press.
- Nov 11, 2021 – livestreamed 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 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.
- December 20, 2015, read my poem “Solstice” at Lights on the Gorge solstice celebrations.
- May 10, 2015 at Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia: I introduced and read from Maxine Kumin‘s work at the Dead Poets Reading Series.
- April 29, 2015 reading: gather at Haliburton Community Organic Farm for a Food, Farming & Fishing Free Range Poetry Buffet at 741 Haliburton Rd, Victoria BC V8Y 1H7, with Rhona McAdam, Brian Brett, Linda Rogers and Dennis Reid.
- 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.
- 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.
- February 18, 2015 reading/neighbourhood launch of Ex-ville at Gorgeous Coffee, 300 Gorge Rd W, Victoria BC
- January 27, 2015 featured reader, with Rebecca Perry, at CB1 Poetry in Cambridge. Gonville Hotel, Gonville Place, Cambridge CB1 1LY.
- January 21, 2015, reading with Tamar Yoseloff and Sue Rose, at the Travelling Through Bookshop, 131 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE.
- January 14, 2015, reading with Tania Hershman, Loose Muse, Poetry Society in Covent Garden, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.
- 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.
- August 10, 2013 – Reading and book signing at Ten Old Books 330 Duncan St, Duncan BC V9L 3W4 – just down the street from the Duncan farmers market.
- Book signing at the Fairhaven Farmers Market followed by a reading at Village Books 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA, 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, 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 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, 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA on Feb 3, 2013.
- Discussion/presentation with the Victoria Horticultural Society’s Fruit & Vegetable Group on 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 (“community supported everything” on bread, fish and egg CSAs) 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:
Readings & Appearances – future!
- November 2, 2023 – featured reader at Salt Spring Island’s Poetry Open Mic series; further details tba.
- April 2023 (precise date and details tba) in-person reading with Susan Alexander at Capilano Branch, North Vancouver Public Library in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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.
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