Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] is a multimedia music theatre piece by composer Michalis Paraskakis based on my poetry. I attended the premiere on Saturday June 7, 2025 at Subset Festival / Athens Epidaurus Festival.
Continue reading Athens: Music Theater Premiere
The New Quarterly has published my description of my writing space. “I work in a room with a garden view. I own neither room nor garden, but I have a key….” Continue reading Writing Space
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“Migrations” was featured in Ebertplatz on a public video-art channel (Fries-TV) in Cologne, Germany. The many meters long screen scrolls over an outdoor public square. “Migrations” was originally published by prism international and won the Earle Birney Prize. The poem … Continue reading Migrations in Cologne
You’ll find the highlights of 2024 in this post, plus previews for 2025. Continue reading In 2024
“Sculpture” has been published by the League of Canadian Poets in their Poetry Pause.
…Cuts//holes in wall. Avoids/ military conscription…. Continue reading Sculpture
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My Northern Childhood poem cycle is a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Poetry Prize finalist! From 2700 entries, five were chosen for the list! You’ll find all ten poems in the cycle published at CBC Books! Continue reading CBC Poetry Prize Finalist
Northern Childhood, my cycle of ten poems, has been longlisted for the CBC poetry prize. From 2700 entries 27 were chosen for the list. Continue reading CBC Poetry Prize Longlist
The poems “Bloom” and “At Play” have been accepted for publication in The New Quarterly. “Bloom” is about the Ukraine, and “At Play” is about a dystopian world where children have lost the ability to play. Continue reading The New Quarterly
League of Canadian Poets reviewed my latest poetry collection. Continue reading Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete reviewed
“Enter,” “Floats,” and “Ancestors” have been published in periodicities journal. I found the coast storm-strewn with French books… This physics of light… Continue reading Three Poems
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I was commissioned to write the lyrics for a cycle of three songs. The premiere by the Bosklank trio was in February. The concert included music by Schubert, Bernstein, Salazar and Gklistis. Continue reading Netherlands: Song Cycle Premiere
Poetry and fiction highlights from 2023. Continue reading The stories of 2023
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Story #5 in my linked collection is a finalist in the International Literary Seminars fiction contest (in the top ten). The setting is in Halifax. You can also find details here about the previous four stories. Continue reading Linked Short Stories
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My short story “The Other Side of the Map” received an honourable mention in the Dave Williamson National Short Story Competition. Together with the other prize winning stories, it has been published in both a print and ebook. Continue reading Honourable Mention Short Story Competition
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“Taiga” was one of the winners in the Poem in Your Pocket Day contest. When I was growing up in a northern wilderness settlement I witnessed multiple forest fires and my family was evacuated by air when I was a teenager. Also in 2023 Continue reading Poem in Your Pocket Day Contest Winner