Vancouver-based Poems
Books
- Oana Avasiloichioaei, feria
- Wayde Compton, Performance Bond and 49th Parallel Psalm
- George Bowering, Kerrisdale Elegies
- Henry Doyle, No Shelter
- Phinder Dulai, dream/arteries
- George Fetherling, The Sylvia Hotel
- Gary Geddes, Falsework
- Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant (lyric prose/prose poetry)
- Alex Leslie, Vancouver for Beginners
- Daphne Marlatt, Liquidities and Vancouver Poems
- George McWhirter, editor, A Verse Map of Vancouver
- Jane Munro, False Creek
- Philip Resnick, Footsteps of the Past
- Allan Safarik, editor, Vancouver Poetry
- Bren Simmers, Hastings Sunrise
- George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
- Diane Tucker, Nostalgia for Moving Parts
- Betsy Warland, Lost Lagoon/lost in thought
- Jim Wong Chu, Chinatown Ghosts
A Sampling of Individual Vancouver-themed Poems
- Sadhu Binning, “Welcome” (about the Komagata Maru incident)
- Earle Birney, “November Walk Near False Creek Mouth” in Collected Poems
- Henry Doyle, “Washroom Journals: Prep” from No Shelter
- Marilyn Dumont, “City View” sequence in Green Girl Dreams Mountains
- Mercedes Eng, “how it is” (from The Capilano Review pp 8-11)
- Chelene Knight, “Dear Current Occupant, Apartment on Clark Drive, Above the Convenience Store” and “955 East 10th Avenue” in Braided Skin
- Joy Kogawa, “What do I remember of the evacuation”
- Fiona Tinwei Lam, “Lost Stream” from Odes & Laments
- Evelyn Lau, “City Centre” from A Grain of Rice, “The Chinese Museum” from Tumour
- Alex Leslie, “Postcard Home from English Bay” from Vancouver for Beginners (see end of article)
- Lee Maracle, “I’m Home Again”
- Tariq Malik, “X Marks the Spot” in Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories
- Michael Prior, “Minoru” ,”The Night”, “Richmond”, and “Steveston” in Burning Province
- Philip Resnick, “Vancouver” from Footsteps of the Past
- RC Weslowski, “PNE Love Affair” from My Soft Response to the Wars
- Isabella Wang, “This Winter in Gastown” in Pebble Swing
- Phoebe Wang, “The Japanese Garden” (Nitobe Memorial Garden) and “Wreck Beach” in Admission Requirements
- Jim Wong-Chu, “hippo luck”
- Cease Wyss, “Ode to Madeline Deighton”
- Jennifer Zilm, “Vancouvering” in First-Time Listener
Vancouver History
Websites
Video
- BC: An Untold History (especially segments 3 and 4 in relation to Vancouver)
- 360 Riot Walk: a 360 Video Walking Tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver in 1907
Sampling of Nonfiction Books and Authors
- John Atkin
- The Changing City: Architecture and History Walking Tours in Central Vancouver
- Strathcona: Vancouver’s First Neighbourhood
- Skytrain Explorer: Heritage Walks from Every Station
- Books by Aaron Chapman
- Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
- Wade Compton, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region
- Books by Daniel Francis
- Gary Geddes, editor, Skookum Wawa: Writings of the Canadian Northwest
- Gary Geddes, editor, Vancouver: Soul of A City
- Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Fraser Valley
- Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver
- Books by Michael Kluckner
- Eve Lazarus, Sensational Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History and her blog, Every Place Has A Story
- Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
- Paul Yee, Saltwater City: Story of Vancouver’s Chinese Community
Fiona Tinwei Lam 