News
Book availability news: i, nemophile is now available at Bolen Books, Munro’s Books, and Russell Books in Victoria; at the Sooke Region Museum Gift Shop and the Sooke Arts Council Gallery and Gift Shop; at the Vancouver Island Regional Library; and is part of the Greater Victoria Public Library’s Emerging Local Authors collection.
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i, nemophile
debut poetry collection available now! see Book page for details
cover design by Jan Westendorp and photos by Belinda White
‘A new lyric voice of depth and intelligence.’
~ Jan Zwicky, Governor General’s Award-winning poet, author of Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
‘A beautiful collection that is as effortlessly elegant as a moss-hung cedar and as restful as summer twilight. Words to savour and often return to—highly recommended.’
~ Heather Fawcett, internationally bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series
Past events:
reading at the Poetics Art Show artist & writer meet and greet
a collaboration between the Sooke Writers’ Collective and the Sooke Arts Council
Sunday August 25, 1:00 p.m.
SAC Gallery, 2043 Church Road
(show dates: August 21 to September 29)
book sales at the Sooke Night Market
Thursday July 4, 5:00 ~ 8:00 p.m.
Thursday July 18, 5:00 ~ 8:00 p.m. (with the Sooke Writers’ Collective)
Sooke Museum grounds, 2070 Phillips Road
headliner at Poetry Picnic
Thursday June 27 2024, 6:00 ~ 7:30 p.m.
UVic Campus Community Garden
open mic signup begins at 6:00
free entry
Greater Victoria Public Library’s Emerging Local Authors Collection Launch
Saturday May 11 2024, 11:00 a.m. ~ 12:00 p.m.
at the Central Branch Courtyard, 735 Broughton Street, Victoria
This is a drop-in event for the unveiling of the collection (with books by over 125 local authors!), mingling and light refreshments. The event takes place outside in the library courtyard, so please dress for the weather. There is parking in the parkade under the library.
Planet Earth Poetry
Friday 26 January 2024, 7:30 p.m.
at Russell Books, Fort Street, Victoria
Allie will read as poetic opener for Nicholas Bradley
i, nemophile Book Launch
Sunday 7 January 2024, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
in the multi-purpose room at the Sooke Library, 6671 Wadams Way
readings, book sales, and author Q&A
book sales at the Biggest Little Market and Craft Fair with the Sooke Writers’ Collective
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sooke Community Hall
Sooke Self-Published Authors Fair: writers, sales, tables, author readings
Sunday 1 October, 2023, 12:00 ~ 4:00 p.m.
Vancouver Island Regional Library, Sooke branch (6671 Wadams Way)
Presented by VIRL and the Sooke Writers’ Collective
Sooke Writers’ Collective Meet & Greet for writers & readers
Sunday 4 December, 2022, 10:30 a.m. ~ 1:00 p.m.
Vancouver Island Regional Library, Sooke branch (6671 Wadams Way)
Reading at Sea & Cedar Magazine Virtual Launch Party
15 August, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Live poetry reading at the Sooke Fine Arts Show by members of the Sooke Writers’ Collective
22 July, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
SEAPARC Leisure Complex
Eh Poetry podcast Episode #51
20 July, 2022
Where We Reside poetry chapbook launch with live readings by local poets from the Sooke Writers’ Collective
7 May, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
Sooke Region Museum pavilion
Hear snippets of my poems in the book launch videos on the SWC YouTube channel
Songs of Love and Peace with guitarist Thomas Radcliffe
23 April, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Shirley Community Hall
ongoing from 18-30 April, 2022
at businesses throughout Sooke
I want to acknowledge that as a descendent of uninvited European settlers, I live, move, and create on the traditional unceded lands of Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Nuu-chah-nulth Peoples including the T’Sou-ke, Pacheedaht, lək̓ʷəŋən, Scia’new, and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. May we each continually reflect on the history of the land we live on and consider what we can do daily, in our particular individual lives, to support truth, reconciliation, the land back movement, and Indigenous sovereignty.