Chapbooks

POETRY CHAPBOOK: A short collection of poems printed in a small format and usually centering on a specific theme.

Discover the many aspects of specific topics, as seen by a poet who’s often looking through a camera lens! My chapbooks Trees, Home and Shelter in Place: the First Year of COVID each feature my Poetry Art and include hand-sewn binding.

What You Will Crave is my award-winning collection of 24 poems, themed around how to live well in the world during these times. The book offers ideas divided into three categories: TRUTH, HOPE, and STRENGTH. It took top prize in a Canada-wide contest in 2025.

I donate all proceeds from every sale of my chapbooks to a charitable cause. See each chapbook for details and thank you for your support!

  • What You Will Crave

    What You Will Crave

    Price range: $20.00 through $50.00

    This collection of 24 poems won first prize in a Canada-wide contest organized by The Ontario Poetry Society! As a way to give back to the programs and services that supported me when I was diagnosed, I will donate ALL proceeds from sales to the Rose Ages Breast Health Centre, part of the Ottawa Hospital. Thank you for helping support me in this cause!

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  • Home Chapbook

    Home Chapbook

    $10.00

    Home was created to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the village where I live: Richmond, Ontario. This chapbook features 7 of my poem+photograph Artworks in full colour, hand-bound into a 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ chapbook. 31 pages.

    Your $10 will be donated to the Richmond Food Bank. Thank you!

    Contents

    Where is Home
    Slowly, the First Spring
    For the Ghosts of Richmond Past
    Contemplation
    Too Long a Winter
    The View from Richmond Landing
    Big Wheels, Little Wheels

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  • Trees Chapbook

    Trees Chapbook

    $10.00

    Trees is a collection of my poetry art inspired by extraordinary trees – in full leaf, with twisted trunks or bizarre shapes…  This collection features 8 of my poetry+photograph Artworks in full colour, hand-bound into a 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ chapbook. 18 pages.

    Your $10 will be donated to the Rose Ages Breast Health Centre at the Ottawa Hospital. Thank you!

    Contents

    Old Woman
    Meditation on Curtains
    Sunny Side
    True to You
    At the Portal
    Eye of the Beholder
    Ridge Road
    Wabi Sabi

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  • Shelter in Place Chapbook

    Shelter In Place Chapbook

    $10.00

    Shelter in Place presents poems with photos that explore the theme of living through the COVID-19 crisis. This chapbook features 10 of my poetry+photograph Artworks in full colour, hand-bound into a 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ chapbook. 31 pages.

    I am honoured to have Shelter in Place accepted into the Ottawa Archives COVID-19 Collection, which forms the “collective memory” of the City of Ottawa.

    Your $10 will be donated to the Rose Ages Breast Health Centre at the Ottawa Hospital. Thank you!

    Contents

    Part 1: The First 45 Days (March 15 – April 30, 2020)
    Isolation, Day 20: Horror Movie
    Isolation, Day 45: I Learn to Exhale
    What the Virus Wants

    Part 2: The Second Isolation (May 1 – September 30, 2020)
    Vaccine
    Second Wave Isolation: Learning to Reframe the View
    Welcome to Lufkin

    Part 3: Musical Interlude (Blues Poems for COVID)
    Subdivision with COVID Blues
    New Normal Blues

    Park 4: Facing the Long Haul (December 26, 2020 – March 31, 2021
    Living Closer to Home
    Hope and Chaos

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