Stanzalone Poets - Genine Hanns
Genine Hanns was born in Vancouver BC in 1945 and grew up on Vancouver Island with a great love and appreciation for nature and the beauty of the west coast. An accomplished acrylic artist, she paints landscapes, animals, butterflies and birds. As a connoisseur of fine education, she enjoys Greek & Roman studies, Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy, Jungian Psychology, Philosophy, Mysticism, and Tribal stories of all kinds; it is often found in her work. She has travelled abroad to England, Scotland, France, and has toured much of America. Two grown children, a son and a daughter, live close to her in British Columbia.
She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2005 where she completed a Double Major in Writing and English and plans an MA in Writing for the future. A prolific writer in all genres, Genine Hanns currently has five novels in progress, four set in Victoria and one set jointly in British Columbia and the United States, co-written with Alan Mettrick, entitled Dancing with Snakes. She has also written numerous short stories, poems and articles over the years. A large number of
magazines and websites in Canada, America, and the United Kingdom have featured her work, amongst them, Canadian Author & Bookman, Cross Canada Writer’s Quarterly, Dandelion, Descant, Ice River, Late Knocking, Northern Light and ROCKSALT, the Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry by Mother Tongue Publishing.
An ancient Chinese Proverb states that: “Women are made of water.” The emotional content of their tears, laden with salt like the sea, are forthcoming responses of happiness and sorrow in the female experience of living. In The Language of Water, Genine Hanns explores women’s’ relationships to their world through myth, love, language, poetry and its forms, song and dance, freedom and captivity, creatures of the sea, land and sky, parents, marriage, issues of childbirth, divorce, isolation, celebration, and aging.
Her first book of poetry, Cross-Eyed Virgin on a Tightrope, was recently published by Desert Phoenix Press of ICN Publishing in Victoria. The Language of Water is her second book of poetry.
She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2005 where she completed a Double Major in Writing and English and plans an MA in Writing for the future. A prolific writer in all genres, Genine Hanns currently has five novels in progress, four set in Victoria and one set jointly in British Columbia and the United States, co-written with Alan Mettrick, entitled Dancing with Snakes. She has also written numerous short stories, poems and articles over the years. A large number of
magazines and websites in Canada, America, and the United Kingdom have featured her work, amongst them, Canadian Author & Bookman, Cross Canada Writer’s Quarterly, Dandelion, Descant, Ice River, Late Knocking, Northern Light and ROCKSALT, the Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry by Mother Tongue Publishing.
An ancient Chinese Proverb states that: “Women are made of water.” The emotional content of their tears, laden with salt like the sea, are forthcoming responses of happiness and sorrow in the female experience of living. In The Language of Water, Genine Hanns explores women’s’ relationships to their world through myth, love, language, poetry and its forms, song and dance, freedom and captivity, creatures of the sea, land and sky, parents, marriage, issues of childbirth, divorce, isolation, celebration, and aging.
Her first book of poetry, Cross-Eyed Virgin on a Tightrope, was recently published by Desert Phoenix Press of ICN Publishing in Victoria. The Language of Water is her second book of poetry.
Jim Ricks
Jim Ricks retired as a psychologist after over 30 years and now lives in Victoria, B.C.. He works part time as an exercise coach for people over 50, performs in a clown troupe (see http:// ww.thesunshineclownband.com), does community service work and is a passionate reader and writer of poetry. He is currently working towards a book of poetry and publishes in a number of literary journals.
He is particularly interested in poem that illuminates the experiences we all share in later life. His current favorite poets are Wendell Berry, Seamus Heaney,
and Ted Kooser.
He is particularly interested in poem that illuminates the experiences we all share in later life. His current favorite poets are Wendell Berry, Seamus Heaney,
and Ted Kooser.
