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Contributions to Online Magazines

Poetry Currently Available

• Blue Skies Poetry (May 14, 2009): "Corriecravie/Torr A'Chaisteil"
• Blue Skies Poetry (May 11, 2009): "Snap of the Sightseeing Self
• Stone's Throw Magazine (2009): "Inchcolm Abbey"
• Goblin Fruit (Spring 2009): "Dsonoqua Daughters"
• Strange Horizons: "Dsonoqua on Lewis, The Outer Hebrides"
• Strange Horizons: "Wish-Stone at Dunnottar"
• Strange Horizons: "The Bones of the Tale"
• Strange Horizons: "In Blood On Stone In Bone"
• Arc magazine: "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" (winner of their 2002 Confederation Poets Prize)
• Lynx: Poetry from Bath: "Ways To Transcend The Spiritual," "The Cairn By The Road," "Dwarfie Stane, Isle of Hoy"

No Longer Onsite (try Internet archive)

• The League of Canadian Poets Read A Poem Now (1997): "On Skye"
• The League of Canadian Poets Send a Postcard Now (1998): "Settled in Montana For Winter"
• The Alsop Review (1997-2008): "The Basement Exit," "A Course in Sadness," "Furious," "Paper Rock Scissors Stone Water Air," "Storyteller Talking At The End of Her Days, "You Designed the Map, This is Not a Test", "On Skye," "Ravenous," "Tuppence in Pocket", "Story 1," "Sleeping With Lambs," "Sheela-na-Gig"
• The Alsop Review (1996-1997): "Reconstructing a Life," "Anything You Say," "Tomb of the Eagles", "Gravestones at Elgin Cathedral", "So We Know It's Not Just Us", "The Game of Cards"
• Floating Bridge Press: "Kilmichael Glassary"

Contributions to Magazines (Fiction)

• Odyssey 7 (1998): "Ars Poetica"
• Odyssey 1 (1997): "Furious"

Poetry Collections

Full-Length Collections

• Blood Memory, BuschekBooks, 2000, 127 p
• Spells for Clear Vision, Brick Books, 1994, 80 p [out of print]
• Seven Robins, Penumbra Press, 1983, 72 p

Poetry Chapbooks

• Sheela-na-Gig , Reference West, 1995, 20 p
• Travelling in Place (with Harold Rhenisch), Saults & Pollard, 1980, 24 p [out of print]

Compact Disc

• She Says: Poems Selected and New, Alsop Review Press, 2007 (out of print). Reissued 2009 by Midfire Press.

Contributions to Anthologies (Poetry)

• Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Granada Hill, CA: Red Hen Press, 2008): "On Skye"
• Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She. Poems from The Feminist Caucus (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 2007): "Dsonoqua Daughters"
• The Long Journey: Pacific Northwest Poets (Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 2006): "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns," "The Walk She Takes"
• And No One Knows The Blood We Share: Poems from the Feminist Caucus (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 2005): "On Skye"
• Anthology One (Delaware: The Alsop Review Press, 2004): "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns," "The Walk She Takes," "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun"
• New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2000): "Sea Glass From Execution Rock"
• Pontoon 4 (Seattle, WA: Floating Bridge Press, 2000): "Kilmichael Glassary"
• We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada's Poets, 1978 to 1998 (Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University Press/Arc, 1998): "The Tree in the World"
• Vintage 95 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry, 1996): "On Skye," "Walking the Land's Edge, Orkney"
• Vintage 93 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry, 1994): "September, New York," "Tomb of the Eagles"
• Vintage 92 (Victoria, B.C./Toronto: Sono Nis Press/League of Canadian Poets, 1993): "Gravestones at Elgin Cathedral"
• A Discord of Flags: Canadian Poets Write About the Gulf War (Toronto: A Discord of Flags, 1992): "There As Here There Are No Doors"
• Something More Than Words (Victoria: Reference West, 1991): "Alban Eiler: A Calling-On Song"
• More Garden Varieties Two (Toronto: Aya/Mercury/League of Canadian Poets, 1990): "Storyteller Talking at the End of Her Days," "Washing at Sunset"
• 1984 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, ed. Alan Pater (Hollywood: Monitor Book Company, 1984): "Photograph"
• The Parthenon Poetry Anthology ed. Angelo Aaron Schmuller (Rockaway, NY: Parthenon Publishing, 1981): "Seven Robins"
• Student Oracle, ed. Noel Hudson-Jones and Julian Ross (Nelson, B.C.: David Thompson University Centre, 1979): "Cremation," "River"

Contributions to Magazines (Poetry, excludes those listed above)

• Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): "Aged Black, Morning Green"
• Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (forthcoming): "Mochrie Moor"
• Goblin Fruit (forthcoming Fall 2009): "Three Stone Row / the false men"
• Goblin Fruit (forthcoming Summer 2009): "True Thomas at Secret Cove", "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Air"
• Dream Catcher 23 (2009): "Atlantic Pacific," "Haida Gwaii Journal May 1982"
• The Malahat Review 165 (2008): "Thunderbird Comes From the Sunset"
• The Malahat Review 160 (2007): "Egg and Sky Skye and Eigg"
• Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 20 (2007): "The Tattoos I Don't Have," "Westness Walk"
• Full Unit Hookup 8 (2006): "Lockerbie"
• The Malahat Review 155 (2006): "Giant's Graves Forest Trail¹ Painted by Numbers"
• Canadian Literature 186 (2005): "Hunting The Lady Well"
• LitRag 19 (2005): "1773"
• Thin Air 0013 (2005): "The Mainland Tour: Orkney"
• Canadian Literature 178 (2003): "Westward Ever Dreaming"
• Grain 29:4 (2002): "Carnasserie Castle"
• Arc 47 (2001): "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" (Editor's Choice)
• LitRag 11 (2001): "The Grey Cairns of Camster"
• Arc 45 (2000): "Meditation at La Push"
• LitRag 8 (2000): "Answers for the Phone Surveyor," "Consider Teiresias"
• Magazine of Speculative Poetry 4.4 (2000): "The Fisher's Daughter"
• Seattle Neighborhood Arts Celebration program (February 12, 2000): "Sea Glass From Execution Rock"
• TickleAce 37 (2000): "The Walk She Takes," "What Comes of Winter"
• Arc 43 (1999): "Beneath the Sign Marked Maidens >9" (Editor's Choice)
• Contemporary Verse 2 22.1 (1999): "Alchemical Daughter"
• Star*Line 22.3 (1999): "Map of the Ancient World," "My Love Out Riding"
• Canadian Literature 159 (1998): "Delicate as the Shapes of Spirits"
• Arc 41 (1998): "Lucidity" (Editor's Choice)
• PoetsWest 1:3 (1998): "Reconstructing a Life," "On Skye," "Dwarfie Stane, Isle of Hoy"
• Arc 39 (1997): "Ravenous" (Editor's Choice)
• Museletter May (1995): "On Skye"
• Toronto Star (December 9, 1995): "Settled in Montana for Winter"
• The Dalhousie Review 73.1 (1994): "Electra to Orestes: Against the Furies"
• Earth's Daughters 42 (1994): "I was a Pagan Baby"
• Poet Lore 89.1 (1994): "The Game of Cards," "Loving The Green Man"
• Arc 31 (1993): "The Tree in the World"
• Prism 31.4 (1993): "Tomb of the Eagles"
• University of Windsor Review 26.2 (1993): "Story 1," "Woman at the Edge of the World"
• Canadian Literature 133 (1992): "White Lies"
• Grain 20.2 (1992): "Fool's Gold on the Snow," "Tuppence in Pocket"
• The Antigonish Review 85-86 (1991): "Four Crow Photographs," "The Lovers in Grey"
• Arc 26 (1991): "Postcard of O'Keeffe," "Winter or Goodbye"
• NeWest Review 16.3 (1991): "My Father Among the Mayans," "Sooke River Story"
• Quarry 40.4 (1991): "Sea Glass from Execution Rock," "Tam Lin"
• Primavera 14/15 (1991): "Midfire"
• Poet Lore 85.3 (1990): "Why I Would Think I am Leaving"
• The New Quarterly 4.4 (1990): "Heat and the City," "Woman in Bath"
• Canadian Literature 121 (1989): "So We Know It's Not Just Us"
• Contemporary Verse 2 12.1 (1989): "Hero at the Gates of Hell," "Shoah"
• Dandelion 16.2 (1989): "My Grandmother's Photograph"
• Queen's Quarterly 96.2 (1989): "Berlin Dreams"
• The Dalhousie Review 67.4 (1988): "What is the Poison Named?"
• Descant 18.4 (1987): "Settled in Montana for Winter," "Sleeping with Lambs"
• Mississippi Mud (1987): "Parable of the Headwaters"
• Canadian Literature 112 (1987): "The Prophet as Traveller," "Salamander Pendant"
• Calyx 10.1 (1986): "Lakeside Inventory"
• The Greenfield Review 13.3-4 (1986): "Map of Vancouver Island"
• Northern Lights II.3 (1986): "Four Pole Crow Burial Scaffold; A Hillside in Spring"
• Wind 15.3 (1985): "The Master of Winter"
• Ariel 14.3 (1983): "The Name of the Hunt"
• Canadian Literature 98 (1983): "Anything You Say," "High Water," "Saltspring," "Swutlak Builds False Spring"
• Prairie Fire 4.4 (1983): "Aside," "Candle Making"
• The Antigonish Review 55 (1982): "Cassandra," "Photograph"
• CutBank 19 (1982): "Heart of Stone"
• Dandelion 9.2 (1982): "The Man's Dark Voice"
• Island 11 (1982): "Journal in February"
• The Malahat Review 61 (1982): "The Seasons Break Their Shapes," "`Sky Dark, Cloudless and Starless,'" "St. Maudlin (La Folle)"
• Origins 12.3 (1982): "December," "House with a Breeze," "The Manuscript"
• The Wascana Review 17.1 (1982): "In Reply to Your Letter"
• WOT 4.1 (1982): "Amazones & The Birdmen," "Naming," "The Stolen Bird"
• The Fiddlehead 128 (1981): "Seven Robins," "How I'll Never Get Out," "Home Out of Place"
• From an Island (1980): "Sky is That Moment"
• WOT 2.2 (1980): "As I'm Talking to You," "The End of the Long Season"
• From an Island (1979): "Voices from a New World"

Contributions to Collections (Nonfiction)

• Imprints and Casualties ed. Anne Burke. (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Broken Jaw Press, 2000): "Poetry as DNA"
• The Urban/Rural Experience ed. Maya Bannerman. Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1996): "Urban Designs." Later republished in The Salmon Bay Review.
• Reinventing Memory ed. Anne Burke. Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1994): "Poetry as DNA". Later republished in The Salmon Bay Review

Contributions to magazines (Nonfiction)

• Essay: "Incense: Robin Skelton's 'Burning Sticks, Mallorca,'" Arc 44 (2000)
• Blind Criticism of "Untitled" (muse)Letters (Spring 1997)
• Review of Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Calyx 14.1 (1992)
• Review of Speaking in Tongues by Maura Simon, Calyx 14.1 (1992)
• "A Desert Full of Glass," review of A Nostalgist's Map of America by Agha Shahid Ali, Poet Lore 87:1 (1992)
• "Going the Distance," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Winter 1992)
• Review of The Green Dream by Olga Cabral, Calyx 13.3 (1991-92)
• Review of Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton, Calyx 13.3 (1991-92)
• "Food for Body and Mind," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Summer/Fall 1991)
• "Victoria(n) Bookstores," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Spring 1991)
• Review of Magpie on the Gallows by Madeline DeFrees, Calyx 11.1 (1987)
• Review of Cascades by Pamela Stewart, Calyx 11.1 (1987)
• "Missoula," article (with James Gurley), Northwest Illustrated Artpaper 1.6 (June 1986)
• Review of Erosion by Jorie Graham, CutBank 23 (1985)

Works in Progress

• The Walk She Takes: Poems From Scotland (poetry)
• Re/Inventory (poetry chapbook)
• Ravenage (poetry)
• Bryony's Needle (young adult novel)
• Bryony's Daughter (young adult novel)
• Gypsy Davey (novel)
• The Empty City (novel)