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​"Perhaps there is only the demonic journey.
Small beauties by the roadside and 
such love as we can muster." 

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Forthcoming Readings and Events

 

Our Bodies' Unanswered Questions

WANT A POET TO VISIT YOUR BOOKCLUB? I AM HAPPY TO GIVE READINGS WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE OF VICTORIA. (PLEASE SEE CONTACT LINK.)

2022

JANUARY 21
ELECTRIC MERMAID READING SERIES: PORT ALBERNI: FEATURED READER

FEBRUARY 3  
OnLine READING,Q & A SALTSPRING PUBLIC LIBRARY READING SERIES


FEBRUARY 8
HOWL INTERVIEW WITH VALENTINO ASSENZA with ME AND ANDREA THOMPSON
 howl@ciut.fm

MARCH 11, 7;30
POETIC OPENER FOR ALAN HILL PLANET EARTH POETRY
RUSSELL BOOKS, FORT STREET, VICTORIA

SATURDAY APRIL 30, 2:30
READING WITH LINDA K THOMPSON AND KATE BRAID
HARBOURFRONT LIBRARY, NANAIMO
 
 FRIDAY MAY 27, 4:30
READING WITH LINDA K. THOMPSON
GALLERY AT THE WEIRD CHURCH, CUMBERLAND
 
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2:00 PM
READING WITH LINDA K. THOMPSON AND KATE BRAID
READING AT COURTENAY LIBRARY READING

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7:00-9:00 PM
READING AT ​WILDE ABOUT SAPPHO:
A Pride Reading of Local Queer Writers
VICTORIA CITY HALL

SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 3;00-5:00 PM
VIRTUAL READING WITH LINDA K. THOMPSON
POETIC JUSTICE READING SERIES
NEW WESTMINSTER
LINK: rclas.com/recurring/poetic-justice/

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2:00 PM
READING WITH ALICE MAJOR AND THOMAS TROFIMUK
AUDREY'S BOOKS EDMONTON, AB

SUNDAY, JULY 17
READING WITH LINDA K. THOMPSON
​BURNABY WRITERS SOCIETY SPOKEN INK READING SERIES

2021

ONLINE VIDEO RECORDING FROM OUR BODIES’ UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
youtu.be/rT4ibOkyRtw

AND ON PLANET EARTH POETRY’S POETS’ CARAVAN
www.shorturl.at/hAEJ7

DECEMBER 2021
​DECEMBER 15, 7:30 PM, VANCOUVER
POET'S CORNER READING SERIES (VIRTUAL)
NOVEMBER 2021

NOVEMBER 3: TIME TBA
FRONTENAC HOUSE’S ONLINE LAUNCH OF BOOKS BY THE FRONTENAC QUARTET
(Wendy Donawa, Tyler Engstrom, Daniel Lockhart, Andrea Thompson)

NOVEMBER 12, 7:00 PM
FEATURED READER: WORDSTORM READING SERIES

NOVEMBER 13, 1:00-3:30 PM
WORKSHOP: WORDSTORM READING SERIES

NOVEMBER 19, 7:00 PM
IN-PERSON LAUNCH OF OUR BODIES’ UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
PLANET EARTH POETRY’S READING SERIES
Russell Books, 100-747 Fort Street, Victoria

NOVEMBER 23, 7:00 PM
READINGS BY THE FRONTENAC QUARTET (ONLINE)
PLANET EARTH POETRY READING SERIES

SEPTEMBER (2021)

2020
DECEMBER
Reading (virtual) with Jillian Christmas, Daniel Cowper, Susan McCaslin; Moderator Fiona Tinwei Lam, BC Federation of Writers monthly reading series In/verse

Online interview of Joanna Lilley for Victoria Festival of Authors.

SEPTEMBER
​Reading with contributors to virtual launch of Anthology Sweetwater: Poems for the Watershed at Twisted Poets, Word Vancouver; Ed. Yvonne Blomer; Host Daniela Elsa.

Reading (Virtual) launch of anthology
Voicing Suicide 
Ed. Daniel Scott

2019
OCTOBER
Reading with Linda Thompson at the Comox Valley Art Gallery

SEPTEMBER
Reading with Linda Thompson at Café Guido, Port Hardy, BC

“Five Questions for Eve Joseph”: Online Q & A interview 
of Eve Joseph for Victoria Festival of Authors

MAY
Reading and workshop at Federation of BC Writers AGM, Nanaimo

2018
OCTOBER
Reading at Greater Victoria Public Library.
With Katrin Horowitz’ launch of her novel Just This

SEPTEMBER
Reading with Daryl McCloud, Greater Victoria Public Library: 
Victoria Festival of Authors

Reading at Mary Lake: Forest to Poet-Tree Walk : Victoria Festival of Authors

JUNE
Reading with Mary Ann Moore, Poet Laureate Reading Series at 
Harbour Front Public Library, Nanaimo BC

MAY
Reading at Fat Oyster Reading Series, Fanny Bay BC

Reading and workshop for Words on Fire Reading Series, Port Alberni BC

Reading at Saltspring Island Public Library

APRIL
Reading at Duncan Public Library with Richard Osler and Rhonda Ganz

FEBRUARY
Reading at Galiano Literary Festival, Galiano Island, BC

2017
DECEMBER
Launch of chapbook The Gorge: A Cartography of Sorrows at Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series, Victoria. Book design Terry Ann Carter, photography Leah Fowler.

NOVEMBER
Twisted Poets Reading Series, Vancouver

NewWest Reading Series, New Westminster

OCTOBER
Interview with Nancy Jane Bullis @ HOWL@CUIT 89.5fm, Toronto

Reading at ArtBar Reading Series, Toronto

Panel discussion and reading, Bookfest, Windsor

Reading, Octopus Books, Ottawa

SEPTEMBER
Reading at Poetry in Transit: WordVancouver. 
Posters of poem on Vancouver public transport buses.

JUNE
Reading at Courtenay Public Library. With Miji Campbell’s tour 
of her memoir Separation Anxiety. Courtenay

Reading at Prince George Public Library. With Genevieve Lehr. Prince George

Reading at Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series, Victoria

MAY

Reading at Wordstorm Reading Series, Nanaimo
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APRIL
Launch of Thin Air of the Knowable, Brick Books. Lethbridge, AB

Reading at Pages Books, Calgary

Reading at Audrey’s Books, Edmonton

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Finally an in-person launch with Planet Earth Poetry!
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Twisted Poets, Vancouver
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Reading with Rhonda Ganz and Richard Osler in Duncan Public Library
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Galiano Literary Festival with Arleen Pare, Dan McIsaac and the wonderful Kitty Lewis
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Sharing a laugh with Linda K. Thompson at Comox Valley Art Gallery
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Reading at Pages bookstore in Calgary
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