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Books and Chapbooks


  • The Plural of Some Things. Guernica Editions, 2008

Poetry in Journals


  • "Jabberwocky" and "Zephyr," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Winter 2006

  • "Alas We Were," "Sentimentality Frayed" and "Ode to Rupert," Kimera, 2004

  • "Ruby Garden," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Fall/Winter 2003

  • "La-La-Bye," "Hair's to Her" and "Corncrake Girl," 13th Moon, 2003

  • "My Little Brother," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Spring/Summer 2002

  • "Zabaglione," Fireweed, May 2002

  • "Exposed," Lichen, Spring 2002

  • "Prosopopoeia" and "Sprinting Clean" Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Winter/Spring 2002

  • "Dingbat in My Tea," Rampike, 2002

  • "Poetry on Lake Simcoe," The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, Fall 2001

  • "Dementia," "Sky Urchin" and "Cattails in the Dark," Black Bear Review, Fall/Winter 2001

  • "Demise of Her," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Winter/Spring 2001

  • "Alas We Were," "Save the Last Dance for Me" and "Ladybug Languished," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Summer/Fall 2001

  • "Rainbird in the Annex" and "Onomatopoeia," Fireweed - Millennium Double Issue, Spring 2001

  • "Canadian Moose," Literary Review of Canada, February 2001

Literary Reviews and Articles

  • "Leonard Cohen of Montreal," Descant, Winter 2006

  • "To Her Place Near the River," National Post, July 15, 2006
    Reprinted in The Vancouver Sun, July 29, 2006
    Reprinted in The Edmonton Journal, August 5, 2006

  • "Putting Crack in the Mould," He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo, Women's Post, December 2005

  • "Housewife Finds Time to Write Short Stories", Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro by Sheila Munro, Literary Review of Canada, Summer 2001

  • "Jumpstarting the Words," A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem by Susan Ioannou, Literary Review of Canada, November 2000

  • "Word in the Street," Word: Toronto's Literary Calendar, November 1998


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