I love to write, and when the muse strikes, it usually comes in the form of poetry. I started writing poetry my first year up at SFU, and rediscovered my love of writing when I returned to university. (Could it be that SFU was a muse?.... yikes!) Anyhow, I hope you enjoy my offerings.



I am an avid reader, and am presently devouring short stories, especially those by Canadian authors. Right now, I'd have to say that my two favourite authors are Carol Sheilds and Alice Munro. Perhaps one day, when the right muse comes along, I, too, will try my hand at short stories.



But for now, poetry is my main focus. My poetic influences include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Lord Byron (see a theme happening here?) I also love the works of e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Yeats, although I don't know how much they've influenced me.



I will be updating this site as I have more to add to my 'cannon' :-)

But poets should
Exert a double vision; should have eyes
To see near things as comprehensively
As if afar they took their point of sight,
And distant things as intimately deep
As if they touched them. Let us strive for this...

...Nay, if there's room for poets in this world
A little overgrown (I think there is)
Their sole work is to represent the age,
Their age, not Charlemagne's, -- this live, throbbing age,
That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires...

(from "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)