Sarah Weaver
Paying attention…Being astonished…Writing about it…
News and Musings
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Journeying into Poetry
It's hard to believe it's been over six months since my last post on this site! It's already April again, National Poetry Writing Month. And in Victoria, spring is emerging, just in time to whet poetic appetites. Rhododendron blooming, early April. I've lived here...
July Poetic Update
Since my last post in early May, I've been working on poetry. I had the opportunity to spend a day with Metis poet Conor Kerr (https://www.conorkerr.ca/). Kerr's latest book is a collection of poems about how we all have roots in the "old gods" of a landscape,...
Poetry Challenge Update!
Yes! Thirty poems... wow. In my last post I talked about a contest for National Poetry Writing Month I was participating in. Thirty poems in thirty days. And I did it! Edited by me, but no time for anyone else to take a look through them. I submitted them to the...
An April Challenge
To celebrate National Poetry Writing Month, I've given myself the challenge of writing thirty poems in thirty days, on the theme of "walking in the world". I'm enjoying walking, getting myself out into spring -- and thinking about poetry. Here's a taste of April in...
A New Poem about an Old Trip
It's been eight years since I tent camped for six weeks in Newfoundland with my partner. The land captivated me. Even though conditions were harsh -- or maybe, because they were! -- I didn't want to leave. Here's an image from the trip, and a poem I wrote last month....
Coast Lines
Some readers may know that I maintain a blog called "Coast Lines". I enjoy exploring Victoria from the perspective of a walker, and I occasionally post to my blog about things I discover that inspire me. I also love taking photographs, and the Coast Lines blog is a...
Poetry, Trees and Collective Action
I attended a writing workshop on January 21 with Winnipeg author Ariel Gordon. She came with a couple of books: As you can tell -- she is passionate about trees! That makes Ariel someone after my own heart, as anyone who reads my blog posts will know. I did a very...
December 2023 Column
I've mentioned my plans to organize my Friday AM columns into a book. Since climate change is on all our minds, I thought I'd post my December column in this space. Friday AM has been a fixture in Salmon Arm's media landscape for well over twenty years, produced by...
News: Another Book in Progress
For over four years I've written a monthly column for the Salmon Arm paper Friday AM. Located in the BC interior on Shuswap Lake, Salmon Arm is an attractive small city of about 20,000. I lived in the area for over two decades, and began the column "Shuswap...
A New Poem
I read a new poem at Planet Earth Poetry the evening of October 6. It seemed that listeners enjoyed it, so I recorded a reading of it. I wrote the first draft during an online workshop in June given by the Victoria poet Carla Funk. I've participated in several of...