Author Archives: Veronica

Toronto Star Books Section Saturday October 24 very honourrrred…     –> support independent CDN publishers/bookstores = that support local CDN & Indigenous authors:            & honoured to be invited to International Festival of Authors Toronto this year: a … Continue reading →

Two baby orphans at the elephant orphanage in Nairobi. They’re both small. The little fellow on the right – less than 4 feet tall. At the orphanage just two months, he was very quiet.  He stared at the ground most of the … Continue reading →

Jambo. In Kenya with my first book of poetry: Sword Dance (Exile, awesome publisher)

Monday, June 22, 6:00 pm Windup Bird Café  382 College Street, Toronto

Poetic Justice: Walking the Talk in Eco-Education In the empty lot – a place not natural, but wild – among the trash of human absence, the slough and shamble of the city’s seasons, a few old locusts bloom. (Wendell Berry, … Continue reading →

This post is in honour of my mother, Grace Gallacher Gaylie (Tobin), born in Glasgow, Scotland, passed away in Vancouver Canada, September 10, 2014. I chose this photo for my mother’s funeral prayer card.  Here my mother sits in her wheelchair: … Continue reading →

Green Radio Network…has landed.  Tune in. Green is good.   

Find Veronica March 2014 EcoJustice and Activism Conference @ Detroit for her presentation: Poetry and Bread: Writing, Roaming and Resisting With Eco-Poetry I have a white rose to tend In July as in January – Cultivo una rosa blanca, En … Continue reading →

Book Launch @ University of Lethbridge February 17 2014: A Heart of Wisdom: Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry. Cynthia Chambers, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, Carl Leggo, Anita Sinner (Editors).