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Poet Zoe Dickinson explores Pacific coast through verse
Dickinson’s new collection links Pacific marine life with city streets and bookstore work, framing poetry as a way to know and preserve ecosystems.
- Vancouver Island poet Zoe Dickinson shared her bioregional work at the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival, which ran July 17–19 alongside prominent Canadian authors.
- While Dickinson's poetry draws from the Pacific coastal region, it was the poet who first approached festival organizers, seeking alignment with their literary mission.
- Her latest collection, "Staff Picks for Invertebrates," draws on her longtime role managing Victoria's Russell Books, blurring biological lines separating humans from plants and animals to reveal shared interspecies experiences.
- In the eponymous poem "Staff Picks for Invertebrates," Dickinson positions sea animals as bookstore customers; a sea urchin might relate to "Fifty Hats that Changed the World."
- "Once you do, it's not just some otter whose habitat is destroyed as an abstract concept," Dickinson said, explaining bioregionalism as a path to ecosystem preservation and personal connection.
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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, in…
·Ladysmith, Canada
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