planet earth poetry is online on friday nights.

We are excited to bring our poetry community together online. Each week, the Planet Earth Poetry newsletter will include a link to the Zoom reading scheduled for Friday nights at 7:15, with open mic and the featured reader starting at 7:30. If you aren’t already signed up to get our weekly news, click here to ask to be added to the email list. Check here or on our Facebook page for what’s coming up. You can also receive the Zoom link by registering (FREE) through this link at Eventbrite.

to sign up for open mic, visit this link between tuesday and Friday noon.

Planet Earth Poetry gratefully acknowledges all of its supporters.

POETS CARAVAN

We are excited to launch our latest project to share poetry!

The Planet Earth Poetry Poets Caravan highlights the rich cultural landscape of the CRD, with readings from poets in all of its nine regions. Each poet is represented by a pin on Google Earth of a spot meaningful to them in the CRD – somewhere they like to do their writing or find particularly inspiring.

CLICK HERE to go to google earth & watch our poets.

(Be patient, the program needs a bit of time to load in your browser.) We have six CRD poets up; three more to come. After that, we’ll be adding more poets who live in Victoria, thanks to a grant from the City of Victoria.)

The Poets Caravan is accessible to audiences both in the CRD and worldwide. This interactive experience will be available over time and provides a way for poets and poetry to reach a wide audience in this time when in-person reading events aren’t possible. Digital projects come with accessibility challenges for those who may not have access to a computer or have disabilities which stop them from using the selected platform. We have made the videos and text available for download separately on request. Please email Planet Earth Poetry if you’d like this option.

Thank you to the CRD Arts and Culture Support Fund, the BC Arts Council and the City of Victoria for their support and funding of the Poets Caravan. Thanks to videographer Lorraine Scollan for capturing each poet's unique voice with care and enthusiasm!

online readings in december 2020

open mic as usual — click here between tuesday and Friday noon to sign up

UPCOMING READINGS

friDAY, december 4, 2020

lorna crozier

Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) is a powerful, deeply affecting portrait of a long marriage and a clear-eyed account of the impact of grief, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada's most celebrated voices.

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things one of its Top 100 Books of the Year, and Amazon chose her memoir as one of the 100 books you should read in your lifetime. A Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, she has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and has read her poetry, which has been translated into several languages, on every continent except Antarctica. Her book, What the Soul Doesn't Want, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General's Award for Poetry. In 2018, Lorna Crozier received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Steven Price called Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), her latest nonfiction book, “one of the great love stories of our time.” Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.

lornacrozier.ca

friDAY, december 11, 2020

all open mic & welcome to our new co-artistic directors

The Handover

December 11th is an all open mic night and the official moment of the handover of the artistic director role to our new co-ADs Leanne Boschman and Zoe Dickinson. Daniel Scott is stepping down after 5+ years of service.This is a night to celebrate, to say goodbye to Daniel and to welcome Zoe and Leanne.

Planet Earth Poetry is pleased to announce that, through a generous gift from Lorna Crozier, we have two sets of numbered limited edition prints of Patrick Lane’s original work from the early 1980s that we will be offering for sale as of March 15, 2020.

Prints are $250 each, payable to Planet Earth Poetry. Shipping costs will be the responsibility of the purchaser. The prints are unframed (protected by a plastic sleeve) and are 15 x 22 inches. Order and pay by e-transfer in an email to Planet Earth Poetry. Please indicate which print or prints you wish to purchase in the email body and use the subject line Lane Prints.

All proceeds from this sale will go toward the on-going work of Planet Earth Poetry.
Thanks to DC Reid for the images of the prints that are posted.

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Gimli (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

Body Tangle (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

Unborn Things (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

Somo Serna (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

Reclining Bodies (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

Masque (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. It is a place where words are most important. A venue in which all manner of poets and writers are welcome; a place for excellence, innovation, collaboration, diverse projects and experiments. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mic, followed by a featured reader(s). Planet Earth Poetry is currently a digital reading series. Planet Earth Poetry acknowledges with respect that we read and write on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.

Planet Earth Poetry gratefully acknowledges all of its supporters.