happenings

…Northumberland Festival of the Arts’ poetry event, Words on a Wire, September 17 2022. Get your tickets at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/northumberlandfestivalofthearts/707208 Be there or be square!

…just add a chair in the shade of a beautiful tree. In paper and e-book, Our Pandemic Times, collects blog entries from the Spirit of the Hills’ writers’ group blog, thoughtfully selected and edited by Felicity Sidnell Reid and Kim Aubrey, and published by Shane Joseph’s Blue Demin Press. Bravo! It includes my piece Montreal

The last mile is the longest. I have finally collected a few of my favourite poems, written and re-written over years, into a small book, What I Don’t Know, ready to be shared with the world. It is explicitly dedicated to my children, and implicitly dedicated to all who inspired, read, listened, workshopped, and encouraged.

http://www.issuu.com/richardgrove1/stacks/bc11ecdd1e7646c4b1fac2bb7aef11ef has included my poem, We Call it Canada, along with a view of the corresponding collage, in its Quintessentially Canadian section.

for those who missed it, here is my interview on Word on the Hill

Word on the Hills Sundays at 1:00 pm Word on the Hills is a radio series, proposed, developed and now produced by two members of the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group. Co-hosts, Felicity Sidnell Reid and Gwynn Scheltema interview local authors, including those who write poetry, fiction and memoir as well as some who, in addition, edit and publish.

The magic of life is always happening!