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Worth More Standing – Nanaimo Book Launch

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Kim Goldberg

I am honored to have two poems included in the fabulous new anthology of tree poetry, WORTH MORE STANDING, edited by Christine Lowther, and published this month by Caitlin Press. There will be many local launch events for this important … Continue reading →

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Codex Exterminarius (poem)

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Kim Goldberg

I was honored to have a poem of mine included in Issue #5 (“Rhythms”) of Consilience, which is a peer-reviewed journal exploring the spaces where science meets poetry and art. My poem “Codex Exterminarius” is featured both in print and … Continue reading →

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Rave Review for Devolution in Vancouver Sun

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Kim Goldberg

I was thrilled to wake up Saturday morning to find Tom Sandborn’s rave review of my new book Devolution in the Vancouver Sun. He bills it an “elegant and ferocious collection of poems and fables. Like Magritte and other surrealist … Continue reading →

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Devolution – poems of the Ecopocalypse

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Kim Goldberg

I am honoured to announce that I have just signed a contract with Caitlin Press for my next poetry book, currently titled Devolution. Devolution will be my 8th book and is my personal act of Extinction Rebellion. The poems and … Continue reading →

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Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Kim Goldberg

I just received my contributor copy of the Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. WOWZERS! What a collection! I am so honoured to be included with my poem “Spawn” in this 460-page anthology edited by Melissa Tuckey, co-founder of Split … Continue reading →

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The Keys of the Piano

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Kim Goldberg

The Keys of the Piano Kim Goldberg The keys of the piano at the annual extinction concert were built from bones of vanished species—each pallid slab a different absence in the ravelling weft. And the people wept as the unholy … Continue reading →

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Library

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Kim Goldberg

Library Kim Goldberg Somewhere beyond silent streets and woodlands, beyond upheaved graveyards, empty schools, dry spillways, vacant hibernaculums for little brown bats beyond the last larval foodplant for the last western tiger swallowtail an old woman sits by the sea … Continue reading →

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Some Loves

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Kim Goldberg

Some Loves Kim Goldberg We enter the elfin wood along trillium way barely a deer trail with rotting planks spanning rivulets and mucky divides. We wobble-walk across, twisting our way deeper into the moss-hung fairy glade flanked by sword fern … Continue reading →

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Alchemical Reaction

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Kim Goldberg

Alchemical Reaction (Villanelle for Earth Day 2017) Kim Goldberg To drink a potion is to believe flower, wing, tail can bring the change we seek. All we hold will have to be released. Has the vulture overhead come for me? … Continue reading →

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Unist’ot’en Camp (haiku)

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Kim Goldberg

Northern BC— warriors block a pipeline, two bears in the sky wake up (Text & image © Kim Goldberg)

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