Aug 29-Sept 5: Melbourne Writers Festival Sept 6-11: Brisbane Writers Festival Sept 19: City of Toronto Book Club Assembly Hall Sept 24: Word on the Street, Toronto Sept 25-26: Winnipeg…

I missed my two aunts, my grandmother, my childhood home, the rushing sound of water cascading down the brass rain chain, the floorboards in the kitchen under which my Obachan…

I walked through the city. I walked past garbage bins and the bones of last year’s flowers. I courted oak trees. My ears opened, and opened again. I walked to…

The following is reposted from the 4th Estate blog to coincide with the UK release of Birds Art Life (Death).  A few years ago, I became an air writer. I was not bereft…