Each year, in partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, the ABPBC produces a collection of poetry car cards, which feature the work of BC-authored and Canadian-published poets. 2016 celebrated 20 years of the program and partnership.
Enjoy this gallery with all the 2016 Poetry In Transit car cards.
Zilm, Jennifer. “Spiritual Media”, Waiting Room. ©2016. Book Thug
Wah, Fred. “The Scaffolding”, Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962 – 1991. ©2015. Talonbooks
Funk, Carla. “Memo to the Young”, Gloryland. ©2016. Turnstone Press
Marlatt, Daphne. “N/A”, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now. ©2013. Talonbooks
Porter, Pamela. “Woman at the piano”, Defending Darkness. ©2016. Ronsdale Press
Shklanka, Karen. “One by One”, Ceremony of Touching. ©2016. Coteau Books
Pass, John. “The Lights”, Forecast: Selected Early Poems (1970-1990). ©2015. Harbour Publishing
Zieroth, David. “Tour Guide…”, Albrecht Dürer and me. ©2016. Harbour Publishing
Telfer, Susan. “Rain”, Ghost Town. ©2016. Oolichan Books
Johnson, Michael. “The Church of My Mother’s Hands”, How to Be Eaten by a Lion. ©2016. Nightwood Editions
Johnson, Elena. “Weather”, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra. ©2015. Gaspereau Press Ltd
Warrener, Sheryda. “Pools in Florida (after Ginger Shore, Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, November 17, 1977 by Stephen Shore)”, Floating is Everything. ©2015. Nightwood Editions
Spenst, Kevin. “Do Not Go Before the Blazing Coronation”, Ignite. ©2016. Anvil Press
Webb, Phyllis. “Sitting”, Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems. ©2014. Talonbooks
Friesen, Patrick. “85”, a short history of crazy bone. ©2015. Mother Tongue Publishing
Braid, Kate. “Great Moments in Construction: The Plumber”, Rough Ground Revisited. ©2015. Caitlin Press
Leeuw, Sarah de. “Wet’sinkwha”, Skeena. ©2015. Caitlin Press
Elmquist, Laurie. “Beach Baby”, Beach Baby. ©2016. Orca Book Publishers
Paré, Arleen. “On Balance”, He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car. ©2015. Caitlin Press
Gardiner, Elee Kraljii. “Work of Rain”, serpentine loop. ©2016. Anvil Press
