Yvonne Blomer

Yvonne Blomer is the author of poetry collections The Last Show on Earth and As if a Raven, as well as the travel memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur. She works as an editor, teacher and mentor in poetry and memoir and served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015- 2018. She is the editor of Refugium, Sweet Water, Poems for Planet Earth, and Hologram: Homage to P.K. Page. She won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize for Death of Persephone. She has performed in cities...See more

Yvonne Blomer is the author of poetry collections The Last Show on Earth and As if a Raven, as well as the travel memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur. She works as an editor, teacher and mentor in poetry and memoir and served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015- 2018. She is the editor of Refugium, Sweet Water, Poems for Planet Earth, and Hologram: Homage to P.K. Page. She won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize for Death of Persephone. She has performed in cities across the country and has had poems published in Canada, the UK and Japan. See less