In celebration of National Poetry Month April, 2026
A chapbook of poetry: Sooke at Heart - Poems of the Region
In this sixth poetry chapbook, thirteen Sooke poets share thoughts and reflections on the Sooke Region, the place they call home. Townscapes and landscapes manifest in the pages as poets explore their relationship to a place often described as where the rainforest meets the sea.
Soon to be Available in Sooke at:
~ Terrier Books – 6689 Goodmere Rd, Sooke
~ Sooke Region Museum Gift Shop, 2070 Phillips Rd, Sooke
~ Gallery by Sooke Arts Council, 2043 Church Rd, Sooke
Join us at our launch on April 26 at 10:30 am in the Sooke Library meeting room. Hear some of the poems read by local writers, for the love of Sooke.
Sooke at Heart
Poems of the Region
ISBN: 978-1-0693669-2-4
Copyright © 2026 by the contributors
~ Linda M Green Abraham
~ Linda M Anderson
~ Jim Bottomley
~ dl clay
~ Tatjana Darling
~ Nancy Davies
~ Kathryn Guthrie
~ Lynda Moore
~ David Reichheld
~ Lorraine Sinclair
∼ Mark Smith
~ Richard Winder
~ C.E.M. Winstanley
40 pages
$12.
Poets & Poem Lines
Kathryn Guthrie
We poets, touched with wonder, look for the words, the ways
Mark Smith
Happily too old to tip bikes down this path
Linda M Anderson
The early morning fog drifts in / through harbour’s arms and Arbutus limb.
David Reichheld
our bodies meet and we invent the best moves yet
Linda M. Green Abraham
Through the night / the stars disappeared / yielding to the clouds one by one /in tacit acquiescence / conceding their place in the sky
Nancy Davies
So glad to drive that winding road home
Richard Winder
Go up Woodlands Road and gravel by the old house where wind chimes may be stirring with a haunted tune
Lorraine Sinclair
There is no feed for the serpent when frustration has no ride
Jim Bottomley
I hung two feeders, then four, now six / I knew you were wondering what it would fix
Lynda Moore
Camera catch the moment and be / like every other Being!
Clare Winstanley
Two distant mountain ranges, toothed behind each other
dl clay
on the beach pieces of time slide together
Tatjana Darling
It’s hard to say what led me to Sooke.