Blue Sonoma

Jane Munro’s most recent collection won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015. 

As if “a voice spoke her name and woke her,” Jane Munro’s new poems are openhearted, yet quick and taut, with a playful – even biting – wit. How can Blue Sonoma be so elegant, so apparently simple, when each poem is a tinderbox?

— Anne Simpson on Blue Sonoma

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events

Upcoming events

Recent events

Dead Poets Reading Series

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch

Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00 pm

Jane Munro read (and talked about) Basho

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Featuring readings from:​

Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) Michael Mirolla 

John Thompson (1938 – 1976) Isabella Wang 

Basho (1644–1694) Jane Munro 

June Jordan (1936– 2002) Junie Désil

Saturday, April 27

DUBLIN, IRELAND

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND

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THE ECHO: READINGS FROM CANADA, TURTLE ISLAND, AND EIREANN

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Featuring winners and finalists of the Griffin Poetry Prize​

Christian Bök • Anne Simpson • Billy Ray Belcourt • Liz Howard • Jordan Abel • Jane Munro (Winner 2015 Blue Sonoma) • Donato Mancini • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin • Hosted by Ian Williams 

Monday, April 22, 2019

Vancouver BC

Hood 29

FBCW Earth Day Event

Feature Reader

6 to 9 pm

jane munro

Jane Munro is a Canadian poet, writer and educator. 

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Her sixth poetry collection Blue Sonoma (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her previous books include Active Pass (Pedlar Press), Point No Point (McCLelland & Stewart) and Grief Notes & Animal Dreams (Brick Books).

She is a member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs (Mary di Michele, Jan Conn, Susan Gillis, Jane Munro) who have published Whisk (Pedlar Press) and Rhinoceros (Gaspereau).

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A Sally Port (Espresso Chapbooks, 2018) – short prose pieces about her childhood – came out in June 2018. These are excerpts from a longer memoir she’s working on. In April 2020, Brick Books will publish her seventh poetry collection, Glass Float.  

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As well as working as a writer, she has been employed as a professor of Creative Writing at several universities in BC, done educational planning, research and administration, taught many informal writing workshops, and read her poetry to audiences in a wide variety of venues across Canada. She has also given readings in Ireland, the USA, Italy, India and Egypt.

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For more than twenty years, she has studied (in Canada and in India) and practiced Iyengar Yoga. 

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In 2012, she moved back to Vancouver – where she grew up and raised her children – after spending twenty years living at Point No Point in a rural area on the coast of Vancouver Island. Although BC has been her home base, she has lived in the USA and Turkey, traveled extensively in India and in Europe, and been to South Africa and Egypt. 

Born (Patricia Jane Southwell) in Chilliwack BC, she was educated at UBC (undergraduate, M.F.A., Ed.D.), Indiana University (B.A.), SFU (M.A.). 

2015 Winners of Griffin Poetry Prize with Scott Griffin

Jane Munro, Canadian Winner; Scott Griffin; Michael Longley, International Winner

photo by Tom Sandler

books

books

Glass Float

A Sally Port

Blue Sonoma

Active Pass

books by Yoko’s dogs

Point No Point

Rhinoceros

Grief Notes & Animal Dreams

The Trees Just Moved to a Season of Other Shapes

Whisk

Daughters

After the Fire