Joanna M. Weston


Author photo used by permission of Phil Walmsley

About Joanna...

Born in England, she is now living in Shawnigan Lake, BC. She is married to Robert, an accountant, and they have three sons, 

... and two cats, Alice and Chaucer.

Writing

. . . Online and in print:

 

A SUMMER FATHER - poetry

      A Summer Father is a readable, accessible book, a timely reminder of the personal and universal consequences of war. Weston’s poems, which often begin with epigraphs from John Jarmain’s own poetry, evoke not only the World War Two battlefields where her father fought – El Alamein, Tobruk, Tunis, Sicily, Normandy –  but also the British landscape of her childhood where the sounds of enemy planes anti-ack-ack fire, and bursting bombs were a nightly torment.

Frontenac House   $15.95

ISBN: 1-897181-05-1

THOSE BLUE SHOES

         middle reader for ages 7-12

         When Meg tries on a pair of blue shoes in Edward Swann’s shoe store, she is whirled into another life and another time. She meets Hannah who demands Meg’s blue shoes because, she says, they are hers. Meg faces danger from Hannah, fear, and difficulties at home, because she wants to rescue Laura and Derry who are trapped in Hannah’s world. She must hang onto the blue shoes in order to get home again.       

ISBN: 0-9739051-1-5     $12.95

 

The Willow Tree Girl

 For ages 7-11, ghosts and time-travel

ISBN 1-55352-073-4      $7.95

 


     More of my writing

ON POINT LOOKOUT

 

the sun outlines red

the bones of my hand

 

shadows hang from my fingers

 

wing-beats sing on the sky

 

I lie on wind

take clouds onto skin

 

and write poems

blue on white

 

TO STAY CREEKSIDE

 

is to leave his secret

down water

where it sucks gravel

whispers to flowing weed

and current-borne minnow

deep under shining

 

his body

rises moonlight

sighing darkness out

to estuary rocks

 

. . . Offline:

Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more... 

 Clarity House Press has published several of her chapbooks including: 

  • One of These Little Ones (1987) – out of print
  • Cuernavaca Diary (1990) – out of print
  • Seasons (1993) – out of print
  • Watch-night (2005) – out of print