Tag Archives: Yvonne Blomer

Things That Give You Pleasure – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 22 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Yvonne Blomer Features the 10th Century Japanese Female Author of The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon

November 29, 2023 – 5:20 pm

Yesterday it was a cold, crisp and sunny day on the West coast of Canada. As the day warmed, the garden steamed in sunlight, thick frost warming to dew and […]

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Fate As In Destiny. What Is Yours? Guest Poetry Blog #22 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Writer Yvonne Blomer- Part One of Two

November 20, 2023 – 7:09 pm

Sonnet for a newborn now seven Underground we were, below the citadel, my son, newborn, asleep on my chest. On the streets above, Italian flowed like mother’s milk in heat. […]

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10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1… Lift off! Poems from Planet Earth Now Available

April 18, 2013 – 10:00 pm

Last Friday at 7.30 PM more than a hundred of us crammed into the The Moca House on Hillside in Victoria. There were line ups at the bar for cookies […]

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