Chloe Bailey
Chloe is a young creative currently residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When she’s not working as a barista, she enjoys writing poetry and short stories. She hopes her writing reaches you, and that you enjoy reading it as much as she enjoys writing it.
Meg Baird is a born and raised Nova Scotia girl who now lives with family in Calgary, Alberta.
- open window
- the wringing heart
- Maritime Rhyme
- Jack Frost
- Choices
- pride’s cloak
- Hot Summer Days
- magnolia blossoms
- the inspiration
- Two Gals
- Two Gals – 1
- traveling
- winter nights
- the night
- girl in white and blue dress
- deep city day-dreaming
- The Roar of War
- Icicles
- Girl With Dog
- The Great Debate
- The Organist’s Cat
Rohini Bannerjee
Dr. Rohini Bannerjee (she.her.elle) is the daughter of immigrant Settlers from Himachal Pradesh, India, and was born and raised on unceded Mi’kmaki territory, on the Dartmouth side of the great harbour of Kjipuktuk. Rohini is a Full Professor of French in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. Her primary research focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. Rohini’s short stories and poetry, written in both French and in English, have appeared in India, Spain and Canada.
Tim Barker
- Last Garden Crops
- Dazzling Halifax 100 Years Ago
- The Trials of Leto
- To The Further Reaches (Pt 3)
- To the Further Reaches (Pt 2)
- To the Further Reaches
- Asterisk
Nicole Basso
Nicole is a student studying psychology and French. She strives to combine her interest in poetry with her studies by writing about her personal experiences with mental illness, as well as by writing in both English and French. As an autistic creative, she aims to challenge stereotypes of what it means to be autistic. Nicole can often be found in the Library with an extra-large coffee (or two) from Timmie’s.
Bobbi Beuree
Elise Blacker
Melissa was transplanted to Nova Scotia in 2006. Born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, Melissa has been a community social worker in greater Halifax since leaving the Picture Province. In her spare time, she writes poetry inspired by spirituality, life’s conundrums, and nature.
- Oh! To Be Irish
- Uncertain March
- ‘Tis the Rain
- ‘Tis the Wind
- As I Take My Leave Of You (to my soul mate on passing)
Daniel Boucher
- Quatrain for Ada’s Place
- Sonnet Composed after reading the first stanza of Pushkin’s Onegin
- Ballad for my Favourite Master’s Candidate
Art Bouman
Claudette Bouman
Charlene Boyce
Charlene is a master procrastinator, a wielder of wild words, and a cat cohabitator with a nasty tendency to sing along with the radio.
Natalie Boyce has an unstoppable passion for writing, and a burning love for all animals big and small. She will continue writing poems and stories for people of all ages to enjoy.
- Trails
- Equinox on the Ice
- Windows
- Lady from Budapest
- Roe Deer
- Grief
- Fore-Fathers
- Rapscallion
- Port of Shadows
- Treasure
- Margins of Sand
- Book
- Hard Drive
- Mother’s Against Procreation
- October; Mardi Gras
- Summer’s End
- Plethora
Morgan Brimacombe
Morgan Brimacombe (she/her) is a queer painter, maker, and writer. She is a white-settler woman born in Nanaimo, BC, the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw, and is currently living, learning, and writing in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, NS) while finishing up her Master of Environmental Studies. Open Heart Forgery is her first place of publication. However, she just finished a draft of a poetry collection (and dreams of seeing it in a local bookstore soon!)
Rick Brison
Dorothyanne used to live on the Dark Side but has relocated to Kingston, Ontario, where she gazes at Lake Ontario and pretends it is the sea. She writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, and her alternative history book, Recycled Virgin, is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1999288424/ and other retailers.
Follow her webpage at http://dorothyanneb.com for musings, writing information, and news about her upcoming books.
- An unwelcome package
- Gloomily Ruminating On the Day Ahead, or waking to an email saying I have been rejected
- Learning again
- Post-modern living in sin
- Put together
LeeAnn Wallage Brown
Phil is British but moved to Nova Scotia in 2017 after escaping from a career in global insurance. After setting up home in Hammonds Plains, he is pursuing his love of poetry and street and portrait photography. He is also learning to play the piano, still dreams of forming an Indie Band, but unfortunately remains convinced he is tone deaf. Phil’s many influences include the poetry of Ted Hughes (Remains of Elmet), the photographers Deborah Turbeville and Horst P Horst, and the music of P J Harvey and Wolf Alice.
Janet Brush
Janet was born in Halifax, and spent most of her life here. After a career in accounting, a choice necessitated by the need to eat, she is now free to pursue her love of poetry, and for the last three years, to study English Literature at Dalhousie.
- Prejudice
- Fear of Snakes
- Billy Collins
- Crow
- Grief
- A Winter Day
- Secrets of a Mirror
- Abecedarian About Rhetorinarian
- The Lovers
- She Who Was the Helmetmaker’s Beautiful Wife
- Harvest
- Fairies
- Reading on the Bus
- Two Photos
- If Walls Could Talk
- The Last Long Sleep
- Dandelion
- December 6th 1917
- Last Gift
- Earthworm
- Rituals
- Age of Bronze
- Dream Redux
- Not Welcome
- Prejudice
- Sunset
- Bosom Buddies
- Homecoming
- Haikus For Spring
- You Can’t See Me
- The Dance
- Love
- Philomela
- Saved By Books
- Haiku For October
- The Hat
- The Cruelest Month
- Just Looking?
- Bad Habit
- Another Dream
- For Spring – # 1
- For Spring (#2)
- Memories of Liana
- Downtown
- Granite
- Family Reunion
- Who Am I?
- Rain in the City
- Haikus for Winter
Charles Bull
Mo Burchill
Laurie Burns is an English as additional language teacher to immigrants, literacy volunteer and voracious writer and reader living in Halifax.
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