Jane Munro is a Canadian poet, writer and educator.
Jane Munro’s newest book is Glass Float (Brick Books, 2020). 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).
Blue Sonoma
Jane Munro 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
Glass FLoat
What contracts and what expands in grief and where does one go when there is no escape from the self?
…. Glass Float is an ocean of insight bombs.
Micheline Maylor on Glass Float
Featured in FreeFall Review
events
Planet Earth Poetry
Reading by Jane Munro
Friday, November 27, 2020
Register for free on EventBrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planet-earth-poetry-friday-night-reading-tickets-123130778473
Sign up for Open Mic:
Brick Book Book Club
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Email brenda@brickbooks.ca to register.
Details here: https://www.brickbooks.ca/book-club/
Recent events
London (ON) Word Fest - Jane Munro & Penn Kemp in Conversation
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Watch the zoom video here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=816107712501675&ref=watch_permalink
Lunch Poems at SFU presents Sonnet L'Abbé and Jane Munro
September 16, 2020
A Brick Books package deal - Glass Float and Blue Sonoma for only 30$
Victoria Festival of Authors Poetry Podcast
September 30, 2020
Jane Munro reads from Glass Float at the Art Bar Poetry Series.
June 2020
Victoria Festival of Authors
July 2020
Jane is interviewed by Susan Braley, a Victoria poet.
https://victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/2020/07/16/qa-with-jane-munro/
Glass Float Virtual Book Launch by
Brick Books & Massy Books
April 23, 2020
Link to watch Jane's reading on YouTube
Glass Float
jane munro
Jane Munro is a Canadian poet, writer and educator.
Jane Munro’s newest book is Glass Float (Brick Books, 2020). 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).
A Sally Port (Espresso Chapbooks, 2018) – short prose pieces about her childhood – came out in June 2018. These are excerpts from a longer memoir, Open Every Window, forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre.
As well as working as a writer, Jane 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.
For more than twenty years, she has studied (in Canada and in India) and practiced Iyengar Yoga.
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.), and 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
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