Poet Zoe Dickinson explores Pacific coast through verse

For almost 20 years, the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival has gathered Canadian authors and bibliophiles, and this year they invited Vancouver Island’s Zoe Dickinson to share her poetry that’s rooted in the local land-and-seascapes.
Dickinson writes bioregional poetry, a genre grounded in philosophy and ecology. Her work, inspired by the familiar Pacific coast geography, asks readers to remain curious about the place they call home, inviting them to see it anew.
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