Poetry

With guest poet Daniel G. Scott. Scott’s sixth book of poetry is ‘Travels with Athóma’ (Aeolus House, 2022). He has published four books of poetry with Ekstasis Editions: gnarled love, terrains, Random Excess and Aftertime. In addition, he edited Voicing Suicide with Ekstasis Editons in 2020, an anthology of suicide poems with an afterword by […]

With guest poet George Sipos. George Sipos retired nine years ago from being Executive Director of ArtSpring after having lived lives as a bookseller, symphony manager, teacher and once-upon-a-time farmhand. He has published two collections of poems and a prose memoir which was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Award for creative non-fiction. Sign-up for the […]

With guest poet Nedjo Rogers Nedjo Rogers is a writer, performance poet, and songwriter whose work has been published in journals including Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, and SubTerrain. Work he’ll share at this reading includes a sonnet cycle about life on Salt Spring, a self-mocking dispatch from the height of Covid, and a series […]

With guest poet Susan Braley Susan Braley lives in Victoria, BC, on the traditional territory of the Coast and Straits Salish Peoples, in particular the Lekwungen-speaking People, known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.Her poetry collection, ‘Tilling the Darkness’,was published in 2023. Her poetry is included in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, and was nominated […]

With guest poet RC Weslowski RC Weslowski is a poet, broadcaster, podcaster, clown, workshop leader and bon vivant. He has performed his poetry across Turtle Island and parts of Europe since 1998. His first collection of poetry “My Soft Response to the Wars” is now available. Sign-up for the open mic starts at 6:45. One […]

Angelo Rosso is a local poet, theatre artist and educator. He self-published his first collection of poetry in 2012 titled 'Pieces of the Road'. He recently self-published his second collection as an ebook in 2022, a series of love poems titled 'To Be With You'. He is hard at work on his first work of […]

Celia Meade is an MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She holds an MFA in painting from the University of Calgary, and has shown internationally. She was runner-up for the Raven Chapbook Award 2022, and has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. Celia lives on Salt Spring Island and in Bronxville, NY. For more information, […]

A celebration and book launch with the 2024 Chapbook Winner Andrea Scott, reading from In the Warm Shallows of What Remains. Joining in are Raven Chapbooks 2023 Winner Ian Thomas, author of Green Islands, and Karl Meade, author of Doom Eager.