Musee des Augustins
A man, tattooed and shorn, picks a plum from the ground of the garden of the monks. Blows it off, pops it in his mouth. And is mendicant. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Bells of Lisle sur Tarn
Quiet evening, old bell calls. Wood here bends to the trusting weight of stone. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Fire on north beach
Look out to Exploits, the sun setting at your back. Stay with me. It’s yours. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Girls reading a book
Hold the book, let your eyes run. There are worlds in here — lift them from the page. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Pot concerto
Rocker-bottom pot rattles and rolls, the morning percussed by oatmeal. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Chopping
Chop your wood t’will warm you twice; then bake your bread and warm you thrice. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Outer Cove
A dead whale and man and his crackie complain about the cost of things. A truck coughs down Marine Drive. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
A little fish
In 2016, Monica Kidd and her family spent a month at their cabin in the Bay of Exploits. Busy working on a novel at the time, her father-in-law challenged her to write a story about the capelin fishery instead. He was upset that the capelin hadn’t rolled that year, there were no whales, and there…
You Are My Sunshine, etc.
Missing my babies from way down in Antarctica. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Gentoo Penguins redux
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Antarctic Fur Seals
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Chinstrap Penguins
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The Shoe Project (2017)
Issues of immigration have been front and centre in the news lately. But behind the cacophony of international politics are all the small stories… those of loss and of new beginnings… that we don’t hear so often. The Shoe Project means to change all that. The brainchild of Toronto novelist Katherine Govier, The Shoe Project…
Peale’s Dolphin, Patagonia
(Dolphin chatter – recorded with an underwater GoPro!) CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Gentoos
Proper little shit-covered fellows. They go on and on, persisting. CLICK TO LISTEN TO RECORDING
Deception Island
Thick black cloak of whale bones and sailors. Volcanic mud. Human debris. So much death here. So much light. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Revolucion
In Chile la revolucion spills out every door. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Yoho
Diamonds of patience at the silent feet of stone. Silver shadows grow. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose Writers’ Salon, 2016
Gaspereau Press describes itself as one of Canada’s ‘most innovative and tenacious literary publishers.’ Just shy of twenty years old, it has been voted Best Small Press Publisher in Canada three times, and its books have won the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award. Since 2000, Gaspereau has been hosting an annual Wayzgoose,…
The Stone Collector
About a year after flooding in Southern Alberta became Canada’s most expensive natural disaster to date, I started to notice some interesting things cropping up along the Bow River in Calgary. Cairns and designs of stones began dotting islands and small parcels of land under bridges. Intrigued by who was behind it and what they…