Schedule: Dates of
Appearance from Future to Least Recent
Planet Earth Poetry, Oceanside Wilderness Poets, February 10th, Victoria, BC
Open Mic Dezart Gallery, Palm Springs, California, December 4th
Book Launch for Signpost - A Prairie Town, The Quality Inn, Parksville, BC, November 8th, 2011, 7:00 pm.
Acoustic Cafe, Qualicum Beach, BC, November 4th, 2011, 7:00 pm.
WordStorm Open Mic, October 24th, 2011, 7:00 pm Nanaimo, BC.
Covert Poverts, October 14th, 2011, 2:00 pm Nanaimo, BC.
Roaming Poets, BC, Oct. 1st, 2011, Qualicum Beach 1:00 pm.
WordStorm Featured Performer, BC, September 26th, 2011, Nanaimo BC , 7:00 pm.
Hazelwood Writers' Festival, Cedar. August 7, 2011, Hazelwood Herb Farm,
with Kate Braid, Mona Fertig, Sheri-D Wilson and M. C. Warrior and other local writers
Hazelwood Writers' Festival
Hazelwood Herb Farm
Poetry in the Park, New Westminster, BC, July 20th, 2011, 7:00 pm.
Coffee Culture Cafe, Brantford, Ontario. June 10th, 2011, 7:00 pm.
Brantford Coffee Culture Reading
Cambridge Arts Festival, Cambridge, Ontario. June 4th, 2011.
Cambridge Arts Festival
MayWorks, Nanaimo, May 7 and 21, 2011, The Nanaimo Museum, Nanaimo with Kim Goldberg,
Kate Braid, and Wendy Morton
MayWorks Poetry Festival
WordStorm AGM April 25, 2011 at Acme Food Co., Nanaimo
WordStorm, Down on the Farm
Off the Page Program for the Federation of BC Writers
April 11, 12, 14, 2011 at Pass/Woodwinds Alternative School, Parksville
Federation of BC Writers
National Poetry Month Reading: Readings from the Wall of Poems
April 10, 2011 at the Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo
National Poetry Month Reading
April 7, 2011 at the Wellington Library,Nanaimo with Kim Goldberg and Leanne McIntosh
League of Canadian Poets
WordStorm March 28, 2011 at Acme Food Co., Nanaimo.
Reading from Walking Myself Home Anthology
WordStorm
Acoustic Cafe, Qualicum Beach, February 4th 2011
Acoustic Cafe
Tongues of Fire, Solstice Cafe, Victoria, January 27th 2011
Tongues of Fire
Glenairley/Oceanside Wilderness Poets Chapbook Launch
Planet Earth Poetry, January 14, 2010
The Black Stilt Cafe, Victoria, BC
Planet Earth Poetry
No Way Easy, David Fraser's Third Collection of Poetry, Launch,
Planet Earth Poetry, November 19, 2010
The Black Stilt Cafe, Victoria, BC
Planet Earth Poetry
Random Acts of Poetry, October 4-9, 2010
David will be randomly poeming in Oceanside, Vancouver Island, BC. Look for him and
listen to a poem and receive a signed book.
Random Acts of Poetry Blog
One Sweet Ride Switzerland Tour September 20, 21, 22, 2010
Aarau, Basil, Zurich
Reading at Hazelwood Herb Farm, August 8th 2010
Cedar, BC
No Way Easy Launch Thursday, August 5th, 2010
at the Wellington Library Branch, 3032 Barons Rd., Nanaimo, at 7 p.m.
No Way Easy Launch Thursday, July 29th, 2010
at Back Page Books, Nanaimo, at 7 p.m.
MayWorks May 29, 2010
Oceanside Arts Council, Parksville, BC
One Sweet Ride Performance May 17th, 2010
The Red Martini Lounge, Nanaimo
Bellenas Secondary School Class Poetry Reading May 14th, 2010
Bellenas S.S., Parksville
WordStorm Erotica Night April 26, 2010
The Red Martini Grill, Nanaimo
Poets on the Wall April 18, 2010
Harbourfront Public Library, Nanaimo
Poets in the Marsh April 10th, 2010
at Buttertubs Marsh, Nanaimo
One Sweet Ride Launch April 2th, 2010
Acoustic Cafe, Qualicum Beach
Reading at the Wellington Library Branch, Thursday, April 1st, 2010
3032 Barons Rd., Nanaimo, at 7 p.m.
One Sweet Ride Launch Friday,March 5th, 2010
Planet Earth Poetry, The Black Stilt Cafe, Victoria
Reading Thursday, March 4th, 2010
at the Wellington Library Branch, 3032 Barons Rd., Nanaimo, at 7 p.m.
"Squeezing through the cracks, searching for the sunlight, the artist manages to blossom."
Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poets Reading November 15th, 2009
POETRY GABRIOLA FESTIVAL
Poetry Gabriola Festival Web
Mother Tongue Press and Rocksalt
One Sweet Ride Launch November 14th, 2009
POETRY GABRIOLA FESTIVAL
Poetry Gabriola Festival Web
Planet Earth Poetry
Reading at Planet Earth Poetry at the Black Stilt Cafe, Victoria, BC, 7:00 pm November 6, 2009
Chapbook launch featuring Glenairley Poets.
Random Acts of Poetry, October 2009
David will be randomly poeming at the following locations on the following days. Look for him at these places,
listen to a poem and receive a signed book.
Monday October 5th: Fairwinds Golf Course (AM), Red Gap Plaza, Petro Can at Northwest Bay Road and Hwy 19 (PM)
Tueday October 6th: Oceanside Community Arts Council Gallery,
SOS, Quality Foods, Thirfy Foods Parksville, and Nanoose Edibles
(PM)
Wednesday October 7th: Pacific Brim, Starbucks, Stanford's Auto
Parksville (PM)
Thursday october 8th: Coombs Goats on the Roof Market and the Parksville Bottle Depot
Friday October 9th An Errington Sheep Farm, and the Parksville
Career Centre ESL Classes 2:15 to 3:00
Random Acts of Poetry Blog
WordStorm September 17th, 2009
NANAIMO CENTRE STAGE
the city's newest arts & performance centre
25 Victoria Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9R 4N9
Nanaimo Centre Stage Web
Oceanside Arts Council AGM September 16th, 2009
The Oceanside Community Arts Council Gallery
133 McMillan Street, Parksville
Sheri-D and Company July 11, 2009
Vancouver Island University
Nanaimo Arts Council Writing Workshop,Creative Currents, June 27th
Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo 1-3 pm.
MayWorks, Parksville May 30th, 2009
The Oceanside Community Arts Council Gallery
133 McMillan Street, Parksville
Qualicum Acoustic Cafe, Qualicum Beach, 7:00 pm May 1st, 2009
"Poets in the Underpass", Nanaimo, 1- 3 pm April 17th, 2009
"Poets on the Wall, Nanaimo Harbourfront Library 1-3 pm, Nanaimo March 21th, 2009
Oceanside WordWorx, 7:00 pm March 14th, 2009
An evening of Poetry, Story Telling, Music and Song
The Oceanside Community Arts Council Gallery
133 McMillan Street, Parksville
Revolutions, March 3, 2009
Leaf Press is having a Nanaimo party for Calgary’s Joan Shillington. She’ll read from her book Revolutions and perhaps tell us how she came to be inspired to write about the Romanovs.
Ursual Varia has also invited her Glenairley pals to read a poem or two: David Fraser, Cindy Shantz, Mary Ann Moore, and Pat Smekal
There will be apple cake and coffee and three door prizes of everything Leaf publishes in 2009. It would be lovely to see you there!
Ursula Vaira, Publisher, Leaf Press
Vancouver Island Regional Library, Harbourfront
90 Commercial Street, Nanaimo
Tuesday March 3 at 6:30
Richard Harrison: " ... Images of glass and crystal the windows of the Romanov’s country prison that reflect their
hopeful faces in the night; the antiseptic walls in the Fabergé factory to keep the Master from the dirt of his own making;
the jewels the royals sewed into their garments to keep them from theft but which became the failed body-armour that only
prolonged their dying ... written through such images from history as these, Joan Shillington gives us a delicate and sadly
sympathetic study of the way in which any family cut off from its society is forever cut off from knowing itself."
Joan Shillington has been published in Room of One's Own, Grain, Freefall, Prairie Journal and University
of Calgary's Writing the Terrain. She is a member of the Alberta Writer's Guild and Alexandra Writers Centre.
At home in Calgary, there is a loft overlooking the Rocky Mountains with a desk and rocking chair where her
husband, five children and two grandchildren often sit and visit.
Poetry by Joan Shillington
ISBN 978-0-9783879-6-9
5.5 by 8.5 Trade Paperback
Full colour cover 84 pages $16.95
Leaf Press
www.leafpress.ca
Ursula Vaira, Publisher
check our call for Monday's Poem
250 390-3028
P.O. Box 416
Lantzville, B.C.
V0R 2H0
Reading at Planet Earth Poetry at the Black Stilt Cafe, Victoria, BC, 7:00 pm November 21, 2008
HOW LIGHT NEEDS TO BEND, a chapbook launch featuring Glenairley Poets.
"Light needs to bend and so do we. A bamboo mind, that is what we must have. We must bow our heads to the wind and then rise again to watch its passing. Not the passive, but the accepting, not the weakness aggression springs from, but the strength that resides in surrender. We give ourselves to words, and they accept us. Paper birches wear the scroll we write upon. A child in a church, a toll taker on the Coquihalla, the little nuns and the grocer, all of them arrive where the fawn lilies grow. We search for the names of things, and our breath is the sound a poem makes, rising as it does from the fecund ground of faith. Poems arrive from silence and return to it. Ah, such bending here on this journey, and such joy in our return." - Patrick Lane
Readers are as follows:Mary Ann Moore – "The Names of Things", Wendy Morton – "For the Journey", Richard Osler – "Yellow Loveseat",
Dvora Levin – "The Dangers of a Large Library", Martha Royea – "The Little Nuns………", Rhonda Ganz – "Dianne Odell, 61 Years Old…………",
Leslie McBain – "Toll Taker…………", Cindy Shantz – "Child in Church", Linda Crosfield – "The Grocer and…………" ,Heidi Garnet – "Blind Faith",
Ray McGinnis – "Breakfast for One", David Fraser – "Do You Know Where Fawn Lilies…", Susan Gee - "Aluminum Plant", Isa Milman – "Paper Birch",
Pat Smekal – "Below Ground", Joan Shillington – "Alpine Waltzing".
Reading at Launch of Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poets, November 2, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo BC
Lightning Reader, WordStorm September 18th, 2008
Mermaid's Mug, 7:00 357 Wesley Street, Nanaimo, BC
David Fraser Book Launch, Running
Down the Wind at Planet Earth Poetry, October 19, 2007 with
Arlene Pare
Planet Earth Poetry
Running Down The Wind
October 25th, 2007 WordStorm, The Bombay Lounge at
The Acme Food Co., 14 Commercial St., Nanaimo BC, 7:00 - 9:00 - Storm Reader
November 29th, 2007 WordStorm, The Bombay Lounge at
The Acme Food Co., 14 Commercial St., Nanaimo BC, 7:00 - 9:00 - Host/Organizer
January 31th, 2008 WordStorm, Erotica Night The Bombay Lounge at
The Acme Food Co., 14 Commercial St., Nanaimo BC, 7:00 - 9:00 - Host/Reader
David Fraser read with Glen Sorestad, Saturday March 31, 2007 at the Hills Native Art in Nanaimo.
David Fraser is the editor of the
acclaimed literary, dark fiction, poetry magazine,
Ascent Aspirations Magazine. David belongs to the Canadian Poetry Association
and is the regional director for the BC islands
for the Federation of BC Writers. Along with other writers and poets on Vancouver Island he plans in the future
to establish an
on-going print and spoken word reading series.
David's short fiction and poetry have been published
in a number of journals and magazines in print and
on the internet. Samples of his writing can be found
through the personal link as well as via the poetry
and fiction links. David's first collection of poetry, Going to the Well
is available through Ascent Aspirations Publishing.
David has read new work and poetry from his first collection Going to the Well at
the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library in April 2005
and in July 2005 at the
Victoria School of Writing with
John Gould and Sheri-D Wilson.
David Fraser's second collection of poetry, Running Down the Wind was launched in the fall of 2007.
Running Down The Wind
