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Dead Poets, Living Words
I am looking forward to Sunday’s installment in the Dead Poets Reading Series in Vancouver, when I will have the delightful task of reading Maxine Kumin’s work. Here she was, back in 2008, reading three of her poems, including one of my favourites, Apparition.
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Food, Fishing, Farming… & Poetry on the Farm
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Art & Poetry Walk
Yvonne Blomer kicks off the tour at Victoria Public Library Last weekend was a busy time for me, with my Saturday in particular fully booked. I was part of Poets Converse with Street Art | A Walking Tour – a cultural recreation organized and led by Victoria’s poet laureate Yvonne Blomer, and featuring Victoria’s youth poet laureate Zoe Duhaime, plus local poets Wendy Morton, Daniel G. Scott, Garth Martens and me – all asked to write poems in response to our choice of public art within a walking radius of the public library. There were also readings of Victoria poems by Carla Funk, John Barton, Robert Service, Rudyard Kipling and Michael Kenyon. Here’s how it looked on a day of all weathers:
Wendy Morton reads poem to steel sculpture by George Norris 
Carla Funk’s Poetree 
My chosen piece: Crystal Przybille’s “Raising a Tea Cup” 
Local historian John Adams reads Kipling’s record of a boozy visit to Victoria. 
Emily Carr’s monkey Woo who inspired John Barton’s poem 
Lekwungen artist Butch Dick’s “Spindle Whorl” 
Daniel G Scott reads poem reflecting Crystal Przybille’s “Holding a Mirror” 
Wendy Morton admires Crystal Przybille’s “Panning for Gold” 
Crystal Przybille’s “Tying a Rope to a Mooring Ring” 
Crystal Przybille’s “Holding Binoculars” 
Garth Martens reads to Robert Wyland orca mural. 
Michael Kenyon’s poetry trapped in morse code on Broad Street 
Yvonne leads us down dark alley 
Yvonne Blomer reads Running Away, to Cameron Kidd (and street artists) graffiti mural 
Yvonne and Zoe respond dynamically to String Figure Art Anne J Steves
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In her latest collection, Rhona McAdam navigates the dark places of human movement through the earth and the exquisite intricacies lingering in backyard gardens and farmlands populated by insects and pollinators, all the while returning to the body, to the tune of staccato beats and the newly discovered symmetries within the human heart.
“…A beautiful, filling collection, Larder is a set of poems to read at the change of the seasons, to appreciate alongside a good meal, and to remind yourself of the beauty in everything, even the things you may not appreciate before opening McAdam’s collection….”
Rhona McAdam is a writer, poet, editor, and Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a Master’s in Food Culture from Italy and a deep-rooted passion for ecology and urban agriculture. Her work spans corporate and technical writing to poetry and creative nonfiction, often exploring the vital links between what we eat and how we live. Based in Victoria, BC, and available via Zoom, Rhona is always open to new writing commissions, readings, or workshops on nutrition and the culinary arts.
