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Island Poets Series

Island Poets is a limited edition affordable chapbook series introducing new work by unfamiliar or established B.C. poets who live on the west coast, on islands in the Salish Sea. The cover design for the series incorporates a different colour and original linocut for each title. We plan on publishing one or two Island Poets chapbooks each year.

Blue Notes

Shirley Graham

IP1

"Shirley Graham's poems are marvelous—magical and metaphorical; they range from seemingly simple descriptions that are not simple at all, but carefully crafted perceptions, to playful philosophical musings that are as wise and discerning as the bluest eye, each one as surprising and poignant in its effect as the blue vase she so aptly captures. I am reminded of the poems of Roo Borson—deceptively simple in appearance, a lot more gets said than the few words would lead one to believe. And it is said beautifully." — Pearl Luke

>go to Shirley Graham's Page

IP2

Distance From The Locus

Murray Reiss

"In the gorgeously produced book, Distance from the Locus, Murray Reiss has crafted powerful moving poems, many of them centered on Sarnia, Ontario, where he grew up. By showing how his family took root there, he reveals a community taking shape. In the poem Tiny Pink Needles, he uncovers the shocking truth about chemical manufacturing in Sarnia and how it has spread ruin throughout that community. I was most taken with the clarity of these poems, and how rich with life they are, and how well they know the urgency with which we live." — Robert Hilles 

>go to Murray Reiss's Page

IP3

Winter Still

Peter Levitt

"Winter Still is a book with a singular clarity and depth. Compellingly perceptive, these poems are unified throughout, with a consciousness that is linguistically alert and fluid. The intelligence behind this work is felt in every line. At every turn we discover the world anew through the heart of this poet. Yeats once wrote, 'It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what that feeling is.' Peter Levitt knows what he feels. We all should be grateful for this gift."
— Don Domanski, author of Parish Of The Physic Moon, Stations Of The Left Hand, Wolf-Ladder...

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>go to Peter Levitt's Page

IP4

Dakini Dreams

Nadine Shelly

"Only sixteen poems and yet after reading them, I felt I'd been around the world and back again. This exquisite collection speaks to, and exists within, the spiritual and physical dimensions simultaneously. Such beauty and tenderness, and yes, keen-eyed attention to the difficult business of being human." — Patricia Young

>go to Nadine Shelly's Page