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I enjoy writing poems, stories and articles for journals and magazines,
as well as broadcasting radio and television talks. For some years
I was a music producer making music collections for young children.
Here are some of the things I've done.
 Television
and Radio Broadcasts:
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Writing outdoors on a very hot day in Mexico |
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"My Dinner with Glenn Gould"
Sunday Edition, CBC Radio 1, April 15, 2007 |
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"Galloping Grannie," First
Person Singular, CBC Radio 1, February, 2003 |
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"Teleshopping," First Person
Singular, CBC Radio 1, September, 2000 |
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"Visit to India," 50 UP,
CBC National Television, March, 1997 |
Articles:
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“My Father’s Secret Past,”
Facts and Arguments, Globe &Mail, September 24, 2009 |
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“It Doesn’t Help to Ask
How to Help,” Facts and Arguments, Globe & Mail, March, 2008
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“Women Who Travel With Men,”
1998 Honorable Mention from Periodical Writers Association of Canada
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“In Stony Ground,” Western
People Magazine, Western Producer, June 6, 1996 |
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“Aunt Nancy’s Chair,” Modern
Woman, MacLean Hunter Pub. December, 1995 |
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“Visit to India: Mother
of the Groom,” Modern Woman, MacLean Hunter Pub. June, 1995
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“Hear Me, Heal Me,” Saturday
Review, Vancouver Sun, Oct.1, 1994 |
Poetry:
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"Treasures", Canadian
Poems for Canadian Kids, Subway Press, Vancouver, 2005 |
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"A Strange Place," Event,
Vancouver, Fall 2003. |
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"The Old Print," The
Fed Anthology, Federation of B.C. Writers, Anvil Press, Vancouver,
Spring 2003 |
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Translations: Blanca Varela,
Seven Poems, Antigonish Review, NS, Fall 2000 |
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First prize for "The Man,"
People's Poem Awards, People's Poetry Letter, Winter/Spring,
1995 |
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"Things That Are Real,"
runner-up Orillia International Poetry Festival, 1995 |
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"Sayulita," Fauquier
Poetry Journal, Virginia, USA, 1995 |
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"Making Gingersnaps," Fauquier
Poetry Journal, Virginia, USA, 1995 |
Music
recordings: |
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Birds,
Beasts and Babes, sing-along cassette and book. Winner of Parents
Guide Award, American Library Assn., 1989 |
The Gold Record awarded
to Lullabies and Laughter
with the Lullaby Lady
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Lullabies
and Laughter with the Lullaby Lady, a cassette and book for parents
and children. Winner of the Gold Record Award, Canada, 1988 |
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Sing
a Rainbow, an original musical cassette for children by Mahri
Sherlock, 1990 |
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Reach
for the Sun and Joy of Fitness - fitness music cassettes,
1993 |
Other:
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Writer-in-residence: Wurlitzer
Foundation for the Arts, Taos, New Mexico, August - October, 1997 |
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Writer-in-residence: Wallace
Stegner House, Eastend, Saskatchewan. May-July,1995 |
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My chapter book The Game,
JLS Press, (2014) is available in English for Korean students. |
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I have received research and travel grants from the BC Arts Council
in 2010 and 2014, and from Access Copyright in 2014.
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