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QOD x Medusa - a poem by Frangelica. Copyright Frangelica Atherton. #poetry #poet #sookepoet #poetrylovers #goddesses #rideordie #bcpoetry #Medusa
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Check out Marguerite Pigeon’s reviews of November, November by Isabella Wang, and I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, now on The BC Review.

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Marguerite Pigeon reviews I Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph
Marguerite Pigeon reviewsI Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph Dandurand (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2025) $19.95 / 9780889714908 and November, November, by Isabella Wang (Madeira Park:
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October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Renée Harper✨

We spoke with Renée Harper and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Renée Harper has a light skin tone, hazel eyes, and shoulder length brown hair with a side part. She wears tortoise shell framed glasses, and a grey turtle neck sweater. She looks at the camera with a soft smile “There’s something inherently poetic about being in motion, suspended between places. Transit invites reflection, and for me, it sometimes invites poetry.” he read my fortune in the passing clouds ill omens mixed with gusts of wind but sunshine too —Renée Harper, “Fortunes”
June 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Tom Wayman✨ @harbourpublishing.bsky.social

We spoke with Tom Wayman and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Tom Wayman has a light skin tone, white and grey wavy long hair, and a beard. He wears thin framed glasses and a blue shirt, and peers to the side. at a time when the audience for contemporary poetry is infinitesimal, the Poetry in Transit poems demonstrate to the travelling public that “poetry” is not one thing, any more than “music” is. Expensive sedans, beaters, delivery trucks and jammed buses alike splash through the pavement’s rivulets —Tom Wayman, “A City Most at Home in the Rain”
May 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Jen Currin✨
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We spoke with Jen Currin and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Jen Currin has a light skin tone, blue eyes, and a blonde sweeping pixie cut. She wears a pink shirt and stares directly at the camera with a serious glare. There’s intense lighting with a black ground. “Encountering a poem on the bus is like encountering this little piece of otherworldiness—poetry is so different from the kinds of writing we’re used to seeing on transit walls” Lamp clicks on in a dark room.  The apartment throbs with light.  Tonight I must dream. —Jen Currin, “A Shadow’s Cat”
April 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Lauren Peat☀️

We spoke with Lauren Peat and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Lauren Peat has a light skin tone, blue eyes, and a dark blonde pixie cut. She wears a brown turtle neck sweater and small hoop earrings. She is looking to the side while sunlight shining through leaves creates spots of sunlight and shadows across her face. “Words can make a minute stretch long, or collapse it into a pinprick. It’s a special kind of alchemy… I remember feeling as if the rest of the bus had melted away, and I almost missed my stop.” The 1:52 train sustains a D major chord. I rehearse having no purpose inside night’s cargo of shadow. —Lauren Peat, “Freight Train”
February 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Calvin Wharton✨ @anvilpress.bsky.social

We spoke with Calvin Wharton and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Calvin Wharton has a light skin tone, and a light grey mustache and goatee. He’s wearing a tee shirt and sweater with glasses and a flat cap. “There was a distinct pleasure in imagining strangers unexpectedly discovering and reading my poem” Imagine you have lost connection to gravity, a condition that has developed so gradually you didn’t notice it was underway —Calvin Wharton, “Do This, Do That: Exercise 2”
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Joseph Kidney✨ @gooselane.bsky.social

We spoke with Joseph Kidney and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Joseph Kidney has a light skin tone and wavy brown hair being swept by the wind. He’s wearing a cable knit sweater and looking to the side with the ocean in the background. “I’m very grateful to be a part of Poetry in Transit, in part because it means that I am stepping forward more directly into the modern conflict between art and advertising.” What could be stranger than looking from a cliff at animals flying beneath you? Perhaps the dead observe the living this way —Joseph Kidney, “Mori Point”
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Interview #5 in my 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Joseph Dandurand about his new @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social collection, "I Would Like To Say Thank You."

I hope you enjoy it:

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July 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Interview #4 in my 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with @christinashah.bsky.social about her new @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social collection, "if: prey, then: huntress."

I hope you enjoy it:
Slipping Into the Water: An Interview with Christina Shah – Read Local BC
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May 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Interview #3 in my 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with @alrempel.bsky.social about his new @caitlinpress.bsky.social collection, "Sprocket."

I hope you enjoy it:
Don’t Trip Looking Back Over Your Shoulder: An Interview with Al Rempel – Read Local BC
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May 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Interview #2 in my 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social about her new @arsenalpulp.bsky.social collection, "Buzzkill Clamshell."

I hope you enjoy it:
The Lifelong Process of Knowing Our Minds Can Be Beautiful: An Interview with Amber Dawn
The two authors talk about perverting pain, literary influences, and cultivating one's awareness of body and mind.
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February 22, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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My 2026 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! New interviews in the series will be coming out steadily over the coming months.

I spoke with @josephkidney.bsky.social about his debut @gooselane.bsky.social collection, "Devotional Forensics."

I hope you enjoy it:
An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney
The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.
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January 30, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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My #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social has come to an end for another year.

As usual, we wrap things up with a post in which our featured poets get a chance to pay tribute to a BC poet who inspired them.

There's lots of love in this post and I hope you give it a read:
Candour, Craft, and Community: Seven BC Poets on the Writers They Love
We asked seven writers about a BC poet who has influenced or inspired them.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The seventh, and final, interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Cecily Nicholson about her just-released @talonbooks.bsky.social book, Crowd Source.

I hope you enjoy it:

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Words Being Read Like Birds: An Interview with Cecily Nicholson
The poets talk about attending to local restoration efforts in art, collectivity, and the sonic and semantic harmonies in poetry.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The sixth interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Pamela Porter about her @caitlinpress.bsky.social
collection, Between the Bell Struck and the Silence.

I hope you enjoy it:

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The Part of the Brain that Silently Slips Forward: An Interview with Pamela Porter
The author of Between the Bell Struck and the Silence talks about death as transition not end, birding, and writing as an act of faith.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The fifth interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Pauline Le Bel about her @caitlinpress.bsky.social collection, Becoming the Harvest.

I hope you enjoy it:

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An Ancestor-in-Training: An Interview with Pauline Le Bel
Le Bel and Taylor talk about reframing death as an active choice, the wisdom of "old crones," and the ubiquitousness of music.
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April 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The fourth interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Estlin McPhee about their debut Brick Books collection, In Your Nature.

I hope you enjoy it:

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That Open Space Was All I Needed: An Interview with Estlin McPhee
The two poets talk about a grandmother's love, the Bible and Harry Potter, and when not to give up on your projects.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The third interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Hamish Ballantyne about his new New Star Books collection, Tomorrow is a Holiday.

I hope you enjoy it:

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Standing Outside the Self: An Interview with Hamish Ballantyne
The poets talk about Spanish baroque writing, mushroom picking, and the sonic demands of poetry.
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March 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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The second interview in my 2025 #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

I spoke with Svetlana Ischenko about her new Ronsdale Press collection, "Nucleus: A Poet’s Lyrical Journey from Ukraine to Canada."

I hope you enjoy it:
Returning Through Myself: An Interview with Svetlana Ischenko
The author of Nucleus talks about the challenges of form, cultural resistance, and poetry as history.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Year Seven of my #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

We're going big to open this year's series, with an interview with the one and only @rheatregebov.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it.
Being Sentient Isn’t For the Faint of Heart: An Interview with Rhea Tregebov
The author of "Talking to Strangers" talks about unified field theory, poetry forms, and keeping the ego in check.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Poetry Month may be over, but we're not done celebrating at
Read Local BC!

In the closing post of our #BCPoetry series, the seven interviewed poets each talk about a poet they love:

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Seven BC Poets on the Writers that inspire them
Rob Taylor speaks with our featured National Poetry Month poets about a BC poet who influenced and inspired them.
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May 2, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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The seventh, and final, interview in my 2024 #BCPoetry interview series with Read Local BC is here. (Don't worry, we'll have one more surprise for you next week!)

I spoke with Leanne Dunic about her new poetry collection, "Wet," published by Talonbooks:

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Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic
Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint.
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April 25, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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The sixth interview in my 2024 #BCPoetry interview series with Read Local BC is here!

I spoke with Onjana Yawnghwe about her third poetry collection (which she'd once planned on being her first), "We Follow The River," published by Caitlin Press:
You Are Your Own Landscape: An Interview with Onjana Yawnghwe
The author of We Follow the River talks about grief, implanting memories through poetry, and understanding one's parents.
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April 18, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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The fifth interview in my 2024 #BCPoetry interview series with Read Local BC is here!

I spoke with Donna Kane about her new Harbour Publishing collection, "Asterisms." I hope you enjoy it:

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The Hinge Where the Mysteries Lie: An Interview with Donna Kane
Poets Donna Kane and Rob Taylor talk about stars, liminal moments, and camaraderie in difficult times.
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April 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM