R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of  the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.FULL STORY

 

 

Poetry at 90

May 11th, 2021

“My early poems, written in my late twenties and thirties,” says Naomi Beth Wakan in Wind on the Heath (Shanti Arts $18.95 U.S.), “seem very strange and distant to me now at eighty-nine.” Now at age ninety, the long-time Gabriola resident and former Poet Laureate of Nanaimo has produced a retrospective collection augmented by new poems written between 2018 and 2020. It’s her 60th book. 1-978-1-951651-55-8

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