"... [an] exemplary collection of surreal prose poems."
—Elena Bentley in Arc Poetry Magazine
"...But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. is a powerful testimony of survivorship."
—Meaghan Flokstra in The Ampersand Review
"... a testament to intentional and persistent survival."
—Emma Rhodes in The Ex-Puritan
"Every page brims with the sort of insight and restraint that most debut collections only give brief flickers of."
—Jury for 2021 Ottawa Book Awards: Ben Ladouceur, Kagiso Lesego Molope, and Ian Roy
"...stunning debut. These poems manage to wrench beauty from loss, absence, departure."
—Kiki Petrosino, Author of White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia and Bright
"...delicate, raw vulnerability."
(post ghost press, 2019)
a micro chapbook
From the publisher: "This dream of a poem helplessly interrogates the insolvency of dreams and the violence of gaslighting." (sold out)
(In/Words Magazine and Press, 2018)
cover art, design, and interior illustrations by Manahil Bandukwala
Appeared in audio form on the collaborative album with Nathanael Larochette, If the river stood still (2018).
One long poem in 5 sections. Severed self, grief, familial trauma; tossed in the pond, evaporates, becomes cloud.
(bird buried press, 2018)
cover art and interior art by Kelsea Shore
This collection is now available as an audiobook on bandcamp and e-book, both available for free download. Undergrowth consists of 16 prose poems, using the guise of seed packets and botany to explore gender-based violence and self-realization. (sold out)
(battleaxe press, 2018)
cover art by Komi Olaf
A loose crown of sonnets on wilderness and control. Reviewed in Today's Book of Poetry (sold out)
(& Co Collective, 2017)
cover art by Cori Hill
30 surrealist micro-poems. (sold out)
VII is seven voices fused into one exquisite corpse: Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, nina jane drystek, Chris Johnson, Margo LaPierre and Helen Robertson. Based on the belief that seven minds are better than one and that many ideas make joyous chorus, we say: We are I and I is VII. Formed in March 2020, VII is based in Ottawa, Ontario, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg First Nation.
League of Canadian Poetry, Chapbook Anthology for Trans, Two-Spirit, and Nonbinary Poets, Summer 2024: "Everyone's a loser"
Plenitude Magazine, November 2023: "Low Maintenance"
Arc Poetry Magazine's Disability Desirability Issue 102, Fall 2023: "if all else fails I'll play"
Vallum 20:2 | Endings and Beginnings, Fall 2023: "before and after"
CV2's Animal Issue, Spring 2023, Vol. 45, No. 4: 3 poems written with Manahil Bandukwala
Best Canadian Poetry 2023: "Pistil Pumping" - First published in THIS Magazine
Canthius, Issue 10, Summer 2022: "In the box of jewellery we went through when my mother died"
Pinhole Poetry, July 2022, Issue 2: "Restful as a hornet"
ALOCASIA, June 2022: "today I put my hands into dirt, and it was warm" and "I always hope it's a turkey"
Watch Your Head, June 2022: "Perseverance" and "ripple"
carte blanche, Issue 42, Disability Themed Issue, December 2021: "Chaudiére Falls" and "Smol Bird"
untethered magazine, 2021: "Once a week for eternity"
Augur Magazine, Fall 2021: "Exposure"
CV2, Fall 2021: "Close your eyes so you can see"
The Quarantine Review, Issue 8, Summer 2021: "Fall" and "Grieving, Year 10"
THIS Magazine, 55th anniversary issue, Spring 2021: "Pistil Pumping"
CAROUSEL, Issue 44, December 2020: "Plumage"
Blue House Journal, Issue 3, November 2020: "The Annual Visit"
Non Plus Lit, Issue 2, October 2020: "Google Doc of Death"
Room Magazine, Issue 43.3, Fall 2020: "talk about it"
The Minola Review, Issue 27, Fall 2020: "You never touched me in public"
Capilano Review, Summer 2020, Co-Winner of 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize: 3 poems
long con magazine, Issue 3: "What's so blank about it?" (Nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize)
Parentheses Journal, Issue 8, Winter 2020: "Only for so long"
Glass Poetry Press's Poets Resist Series, December 2019: "Those who need to here this won't listen"
Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 85, Summer 2018: "Seeds" - Winner of 2017 Diana Brebner Prize
Prairie Fire, Summer 2018: "What you actually lost" - 3rd place in 2018 Carmen Bliss Poetry Contest
The Fiddlehead, Spring 2018: "Recurrent" - Honourable mention in 2018 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest
The Maynard, Fall 2017: "The malice in my footsteps"Prairie Fire, Fall 2017: “Home”
Prairie Fire, Fall 2017: “Home”
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