Sublime, Poems for Vanishing Ice, Book Launch March 21, 7 PM
The main in-person launch for "Sublime, Poems for Vanishing Ice" edited by Yvonne Blomer, published by Caitlin Press will be ...
River Rites
River Rites published in Grain 50th Anniversary edition, Fall 2023. The Eaton’s catalogue arrived in our rural mailbox twice a year ...
National Poetry Month 2025
Day 11, April 11, 2025 FOUND POEM I read the news today, oh boy…The potus, Wall Street’s Frankenstein!Is this real ...
Making Heat
Write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and ...
Building the Temple
At first, we come with black zafus and zabutons, placing them in disarray, not in the usual rectangle facing the ...
Recent Reading
February 2, 2026. I just finished reading "Instructions for a Heatwave" by Maggie O'Farrell. She is one of my favourite ...
Hummingbird
HUMMINGBIRD Ethereal in my hand, an iridescent female, feathers fanned, beak wide open. I place her in the hollow arbutus ...
Guided Meditation
If your mind is racing and you feel as though you are running to keep up with your life, then ...
Intimate with Nature
Deer, Eagles, Hawks Almost daily, I hike uphill through the woods to a spectacular view of the southern Gulf Islands ...
Poetry Workshops
My next workshop date will be in spring 2026. Guidelines and a natural environment will be provided where you will ...
What I’m Reading
Omar El Akkad “What Strange Paradise” drew me right into his story and characters. Despite the gravity of the subject, the ...
Finding A Voice, for mothers and daughters
Her non-fiction story below “Finding a Voice” was aired on radio CFUV in 2011. Listen to "Finding A Voice" ...
Magnanimous Mind, Dharma Talk May 4/2022
I presented this talk to the Salt Spring Zen Sangha a few weeks after our spring sesshin (silent meditation retreat) ...
First Artichoke
A young woman naked under a loose cotton dressin a Greek café after the rain.an old man strums a bouzouki. She ...
White Bird
The fully loaded WestJet 737 bumps down on the runway. Call me psychic. Call me crazy. But I sense presences. Ghosts ...
Inheritance
I come from a line of women with cotton house dresses, bibbed aprons, flour and butter on their hands, the ...
The Home Place
Nothing captures the history of this farm, no stump fences or tree lines to shape a past life, a family ...
shifting seasons
Cloud Mountain Falling down mountain swims in the clouds, its feet ride deep in the sea. Mountains and waters flow ...
The White Crow Review in Canadian Literature
http://canlit.ca/reviews/feathering_the_caw Canadian Literature Vol 223. Winter 2014 ...
The Icy Path
Snow shimmers in sudden sunlight... The Icy Path, is posted on the League of Canadian Poets blog here ...
The White Crow: Poems $15 + postage
"In Christine Smart’s finely wrought poems, one has the sense of an Intelligence that sifts the world for its gold: ...
Love the Questions
One of my favourite quotes, from the book Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke “Be patient toward all ...
Solitude (from decked and dancing)
Inspiration. . Still Life Come to this life as in a dream, a sense of floating as if your presence ...
Decked and Dancing – SOLD OUT!
by Christine Smart (2006) (paperback) SOLD OUT! The sixty-four poems in this first collection from Christine Smart are intimate and ...
Coming Home
"What is an island, a point of land surrounded by water, or a man and a woman surrounded by their ...
Apples Under the Bed: Recollections and Recipes from B.C. Writers and Artists
This collection of original essays by B.C. writers and artists throws light on little-known aspects of their lives and creativity ...