Poetry
Lights Under Concrete and Glass
2024 (Vancouver)
A collection of prose poetry that explores the twenties of a cultural historian, pragmatic insomniac, and capital-R Romantic through splintered Vancouver nights.
The pieces, in their variety, connect into a cultural ecology: a stack of blurry photographs that remember places and people at a certain time in a certain place, with their connections and proclivities.
Read the Substack Introduction post here.
203 PAGES
Absence Under the Electrics
2022 (Vancouver/Montreal)
“In Bergamo, the city morgues are full. With the window in my studio apartment lifted,/ the breeze drifts in: a brushstroke that pastels the annual blush/of cherry blossoms.”
A collaborative text between poet Violetta Leigh and analog photographer Yannick Pereira Bajard. It started as a project during the pandemic, as a way for two friends to connect, create, distract, and move forward.
44 pages
Heartworm Reader Issue No.1
2020 (LA)
“The transition from guttered streetlight to dim venue startled her eyes, and for two breaths, three breaths, the passage rendered her sightless. Every cracked soul shrouded in leather that stepped through that doorway placed themselves in vulnerability while their body adjusted to a lightless, roaring chamber.”
The first issue of the Heartworm Reader, a new literary journal, featuring 100 poems by 25 different contributors.
