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About Wendy DonawaA coast-dweller, I have always lived near the sea, always on an island. I was born and raised on Vancouver Island, then spent 36 years of my adult life in Barbados. There I raised my family, studied at the University of the West Indies, taught at the Barbados Community College, also exhibited my own prints and paintings. For a decade there I was a curator at the Barbados Museum.
Amari Donawa, 9
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Now retired from an academic life, I’ve returned to Victoria, where my heart and mind attend to poetry. I am grateful for Patrick Lane's and Lorna Crozier's mentorship, for residential workshops at the Banff Centre and Sage Hill as well as workshops by many gifted and generous poets. The salty air off the Salish Sea and the easterly trade winds of the Caribbean make equal claim on my spirit.
I am a contributing editor with ARC poetry magazine and active with Victoria's Planet Earth Poetry, where I write the monthly poetry column Unpacking the Poem. http://planetearthpoetry.com/unpacking Watch Planet Earth Poetry:Poetry Caravan (Lorraine Scollan, videographer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4ibOkyRtw |
My first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, was nominated for the Raymond Souster Award and Gerald Lampert Award. My second book Our Bodies' Unanswered Questions, was one of the 2021 Frontenac Quartet. Harbour House Publishing released my third book, The Time of Falling Apart, in September 2025. My poems appear in numerous anthologies and in Canadian magazines including ARC, The New Quarterly, Island Writer, the Literary Review of Canada, Freefall, Plenitude, Room, Prairie Fire, online with LCP's Poetry Pause, and on BC's Poetry in Transit.
photo by Chris Hancock Donaldson
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