Poetry & Art
poiesis [noun] /pəʊˈiːsɪs/
1. that which produces or leads a thing into being, that did not exist before.
I write poetry and prose, and I am a multimedia artist. I am interested in new thought that comes by surprise, from spontaneous juxtapositions and language collage. I am influenced constantly by varied forms of art, experimenting with the physical properties of ceramic, fibre, paint and paper; with the dynamics of language, music, movement, and digital forms. There are always more ways to see and sense this experience of living.
Poetry
Publication / Accolades
In Winter 2025, “Ant Strategy” appears on the cover of The Ampersand Review. The poem“Pilgrimage” received an Honourable Mention in the 2022 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry. Read it now on the beautiful website of Canthius Journal.
I was named on the long list in 2023 for The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition. The Poetry Society invites long-listed poets to share a prompt to add to their generous writing resources — find mine on the third sheet of prompts for 2024. Lots of creative inspiration to be found here!
Four poems gathered under the title, “Upcoast, or Unsettled,” are published by Hairstreak Butterfly Review and can be read online. These poems dwell in the territory of my book-length work-in-progress that explores island life in northern BC at the turn of the 20th century.
“Timepiece” won the 2019 Open Season Award, in the poetry category, and was published in Issue #206.
“To read ‘Timepiece’ is to experience both the tumbling feeling of Time’s non-linearity and the relentlessness of Time’s passage. This is a work of elegant images, linguistic feints, tonal filigree, and scraps of narration—all stitched together with a serious precision.”
— Shane Book, Judge of The Malahat Review 2019 Open Season Award in Poetry
Readings
January 22, 2025 - The Ampersand Review, Issue No.7
The Hazel McCallion Central Library, Program Room B, Mississauga 6-8 p.m.
April 24, 2020
Draft 15.5 - ONLINE!
3 p.m. REGISTER
April 9, 2020
Word to the West
Toronto, ON
POSTPONED
July 14, 2019
Draft Reading Series
Toronto, ON
SERIES : PHOTOGRAPHY
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On Exhibit
March 5-23, 2025 - Three Fold Vessels on display with Small Pleasures. Propeller Art Gallery, 30 Abell Street, Toronto
December 11, 2024
Manifold / Peacemobile
Off the Wall Annual Fundraiser
Propeller Art gallery, Toronto
June 20, 2024
xxi: THE WORLD
The Lost Tarot Book Launch
Society Clubhouse, Toronto
Oct 23-Nov 10, 2024
Memory Folds / Birth place Experimental Intervention
Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto
Sept 24-25, 2022
Taking REfuge (Triptych)
Art for Peace exhibition
Textile Museum, Toronto
SERIES: CERAMIC ARTS
Fold
How much can clay behave like cloth? Drape and bend and fold in an assembly that relies on gravity, speed, and chance — find the natural drape and curves before the soft porcelain loses its viscosity. How much like fabric can it remain once it has fired hard into glass and stone?
FIBRE ARTS
Warp & Weft
There are so many poems to be read in the relationship of lines and threads — shifting patterns in dense proximity to our neighbours, or loose, even elusive, interconnection. And then too, the relationship of memory to fibre: in much of my work, every yarn has a story, a known provenance. If I didn’t spin it myself, I know what path it followed to reach me.
