Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
~ Audre Lorde
~ Audre Lorde
BOOKS:
human being water - (currently being edited)
Written over the course of 15 years, this collection of poetry for these times of converging crises and global predicaments will challenge your ideas about the interaction of water, humanity and being-ness. Honour a parking metre? Turn tears into light? Water can see its future? You won’t finish this book untouched or unchanged.
Of one poem, a reader says:
Your poem is hilarious, grounded in the earth, jaded yet hopeful, interesting and emotionally immersive.
Regarding poem-Stifle a Yarn:
It didn’t lose its charm the more times that I read it. … The play of ideas touching on portals, openings, a sense of mystery and a subtle negotiation of a relationship: his restraint, her gloom. I love that the poem had a mix of humour and mystery, darkness and play. It appealed to me, as someone fascinated with narrative, as an untold story as well as a told story.
~Daniel G Scott, Poet & Associate Professor Emeritus
Madroots: Poetic Reflections on Familial Mental Illness in Modern Society - (currently being edited)
These poems, forged from pain and confusion, narrate the author’s journey through family experiences of abuse, suicide, mental illness, impoverishment and other difficult emotional situations. Lithe and poignant, the story matures and gains nuance and complexity as the author herself grows up and changes. Ultimately redemptive, this book is being written in two timeframes about 20 years apart.
AWARDS:
First Place 2022 Victoria Writer's Society Writing Competition for Poetry. Poem: Stifle a Yarn.
Long Listed 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry. Poem: Mom's Year-Long Preview
INDIVIDUAL POEMS:
Stifle a Yarn - in Island Writer Magazine. December 2022
Alder Tree at the Intersection of Government, Wharf and Humbolt - in Caitlin Press' tree poetry anthology Worth More Standing. April 2022
Portion of a book review of Worth More Standing by Toby Brooks, author of Pat Lowther's Continent:
'... I was most moved by the section called "Grief". I wonder if some of those poems might speak to cynics. Specifically, "Planting/ two trees for every tree you kill/ doesn't bring me back." That poem, "Alder Tree at the Intersections of Government, Wharf and Humbolt" shouts the uniqueness of each tree (p. 184). Poet Nicole Moen tells how alders have healed both humans and disturbed land, and provided nutrition to Indigenous people. She notes that the "tree removal" notice might as well say "woman removal."'
human being water, water being human and being human water in The Purposeful Mayonnaise Journal Volume 1, Issue 5 - Flow. Pages 20-22. February 2022
human being water - (currently being edited)
Written over the course of 15 years, this collection of poetry for these times of converging crises and global predicaments will challenge your ideas about the interaction of water, humanity and being-ness. Honour a parking metre? Turn tears into light? Water can see its future? You won’t finish this book untouched or unchanged.
Of one poem, a reader says:
Your poem is hilarious, grounded in the earth, jaded yet hopeful, interesting and emotionally immersive.
Regarding poem-Stifle a Yarn:
It didn’t lose its charm the more times that I read it. … The play of ideas touching on portals, openings, a sense of mystery and a subtle negotiation of a relationship: his restraint, her gloom. I love that the poem had a mix of humour and mystery, darkness and play. It appealed to me, as someone fascinated with narrative, as an untold story as well as a told story.
~Daniel G Scott, Poet & Associate Professor Emeritus
Madroots: Poetic Reflections on Familial Mental Illness in Modern Society - (currently being edited)
These poems, forged from pain and confusion, narrate the author’s journey through family experiences of abuse, suicide, mental illness, impoverishment and other difficult emotional situations. Lithe and poignant, the story matures and gains nuance and complexity as the author herself grows up and changes. Ultimately redemptive, this book is being written in two timeframes about 20 years apart.
AWARDS:
First Place 2022 Victoria Writer's Society Writing Competition for Poetry. Poem: Stifle a Yarn.
Long Listed 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry. Poem: Mom's Year-Long Preview
INDIVIDUAL POEMS:
Stifle a Yarn - in Island Writer Magazine. December 2022
Alder Tree at the Intersection of Government, Wharf and Humbolt - in Caitlin Press' tree poetry anthology Worth More Standing. April 2022
Portion of a book review of Worth More Standing by Toby Brooks, author of Pat Lowther's Continent:
'... I was most moved by the section called "Grief". I wonder if some of those poems might speak to cynics. Specifically, "Planting/ two trees for every tree you kill/ doesn't bring me back." That poem, "Alder Tree at the Intersections of Government, Wharf and Humbolt" shouts the uniqueness of each tree (p. 184). Poet Nicole Moen tells how alders have healed both humans and disturbed land, and provided nutrition to Indigenous people. She notes that the "tree removal" notice might as well say "woman removal."'
human being water, water being human and being human water in The Purposeful Mayonnaise Journal Volume 1, Issue 5 - Flow. Pages 20-22. February 2022