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  • Volume Two: Petals

    Then Came The Voice
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    There is a deeper reality at play than the current one most of us occupy and perceive, and the inner self has direct access to it through openness, insight, dreams, meditation, and attention. Through this delightfully eclectic collection of...


  • Callings

    Then Came the Voice
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    There is a deeper reality at play than the current one most of us occupy and perceive, and the inner self has direct access to it through openness, insight, dreams, meditation, and attention. Through this delightfully eclectic collection of...


  • Our Heritage

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    Our Heritage is a gesture towards home. The stories and poems in this collection are little slices of life, explorations of family, labour, illness, spirituality, war, and environmentalism, featuring coastal landscapes and a meteorologist’s...


  • As We Are Creation

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    Like a gentle rain falling on parched earth, this is poetry to nourish the soul. As We Are Creation brings together reflections on the natural world and our inner reality to reveal the spiritual essence of existence. As Barrette relates in “Your...


  • The Influence

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    What lives in our second attention? Is it all a fabrication of our own mind or are there entities and forces that affect us from unknown realms? The influence is a poetic/visual exploration of things that can not easily be put into words. A book...


  • A Poetry Gift

    A Thought, a Poem, a Highway
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    A branch of life, I walk along The limb of this tree, crooked and long A Poetry Gift is a collection of poems about life, nature, and the human condition. It’s intended to make people smile, and bring a little bit of inspiration and happiness to...


  • Flowing Over the Land and Water

    A Settler's Reflections on the Decolonization of Self and Systems
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    We are living in a time characterized by violence in many forms, stemming from systems built upon mental models that need to be challenged. Flowing Over the Land and Water—a collection of poetic reflections—marks a threshold for anyone on a...


  • The Pig Behind The Door

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    A few years ago, I received a gift of a three-foot ceramic pig and wondered, what do I do with it? After some discussion, my husband and I went and purchased and old antique door and window and hung them under one of the huge cedar trees in our...


  • Oh Bless'd Broken Me

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    Oh, Bless’d Broken Me is a poetry and photo collection that highlights the hardships and struggles that contribute to an individual’s realization and understanding of themself. Those hardships can take many forms—lack of identity, unrequited...


  • Diving In

    A year of swimming on the edge of Haida Gwaii
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    This powerful and lyrical poetry collection was inspired by a year of cold-water swimming in the ocean and rivers on the edge of Haida Gwaii. Kim Larocque started daily dips in the frigid waters after a joyful New Year’s Day swim with friends....