Past appearances

Past readings, talks, launches and appearances:

• 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.
• 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