by Sarah Weaver | Apr 13, 2024 | Commentaries
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....
by Sarah Weaver | Mar 22, 2024 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Jan 23, 2024 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Oct 9, 2023 | Commentaries
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...
by Sarah Weaver | Jul 15, 2023 | Commentaries
When I made the decision to move from the BC interior to Victoria in early 2020, I was pulled by my connections to people I’d met in Victoria. Over a year prior I had discovered a writing group at the James Bay New Horizons Centre. The group met weekly, and...
