Publications

Posted by Daniela Elza on Mar 04 2007

POETRY and other more or less poetic things:

With thanks to the staff of the Mountain View City Cemetery for featuring this poem on their website.

    the following six poems are all featured on ditch, poetry that maters:

  • putting words in the mouth of a picture (first published in 4poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009)
  • symmetry (first published by dANDelion, 2007)
  • true or false (a triptych (first published in Rocksalt Anthology (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008)
  • negotiating with the dead (first published in Matrix, issue 84, 2009)
  • tabula e rasa (won Honorable Mention in 17th SiWC Poetry Contest, 2009)
  • blood_alley://interstital_syn.tax (first published in qarrtsiluni, Feb. 2009)

Thanks to the editors of ditch for featuring these poems on their website.

  • tabula e rasa

won Honorable Mention in the 17th SIWC Poetry Contest, published in their annual anthology (2009).

published in BluePrintReview issue #22
re /visit /cycle /turn (Oct. 2009).

  • listening to the CBC on the way to Jasper
  • on the death of a person whom it is desired to honour
  • echoes in clay
  • of jewels
  • alternate grammars
  • serving time (in the burbs
  • essay on poetics

forthcoming in The New Orphic Review, in their Featured Poet section (Spring, 2010).

  • negotiating with the dead

published in matrix issue 84: The New Vancouver (Fall, 2009)

published in educational insights: Academic Pathologies issue, Vol. 13, Number 4 (January, 2010).
(note: shifting (of obligations was initially published in CV2 in 2007. and in the eye (of contemplation was originally published in Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences.)

  • 11 poems

forthcoming in the Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy (Summer, 2009).

  • in the flicker of (time
  • on the way to Sophia
  • breathing maps
  • interpreting the winds
  • on the small back of breath
  • putting words in the mouth of a picture
  • inhabitions
  • in a tumble of feathers
  • poetics, interview, photo, bio, scores of three previous versions of last poem, and its translation into Bulgarian

published in the new and innovative MTP BC Poets Series, book 4 Poets: Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, Onjana Yawnghwe (Mother Tongue Publishing) August, 2009.

published in Press 1 in their Vol. 3, Number1, May-August 2009 issue.

  • grey on grey
  • a walk down apostrophe lane

published in A Verse Map of Vancouver Anthology. (Anvil Press April, 2009).

  • Milk Tooth Bane Bone
  • the shape of questions

published in Vallum 6:2 (July, 2009)

written in collaboration with Hartley Banack published in educational insights in their Academic Pathologies issue, Vol. 13, Number 4, (Jan, 2010).

collaborative poem with Harold Rhenisch published in the Mutating the Signature issue at qarrtsiluni online literary magazine, posted Feb. 5, 2009.

collaborative poem with Rob Taylor published in the Mutating the Signature issue at qarrtsiluni online literary magazine, posted March 22, 2009.

collaborative poem with Chrisitna Shah forthcoming in the Mutating the Signature issue at qarrtsiluni online literary magazine, posted April 10, 2009.

collaborative poem with Dethe Elza published in the Mutating the Signature issue at qarrtsiluni online literary magazine, posted Feb. 26, 2009.

published in One Ghana One Voice Feb. 2009.

a collaboration published by Leaf Press, home of Monday’s poem, Jan. 12, 2009.

  • the difficulty of such beginnings

won second place in Byron’s Quill Award for Poetry, 2008.

won first place in Pandora’s Collective Poetry Contest, Oct. 2008.

  • poppies are not (Enough
  • Mutanabbi Street: footnotes

forthcoming in Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Anthology (Red Hen Press, Fall 2009)

  • Nelson

published in Vancouver Review, issue 19, Fall 2008.

  • true or false (a triptych
  • poetics statement

published in Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry, Mother Tongue Publishing Limited, (Fall, 2008)

    • published in Journal of Environmental Philosophy in their special issue Species of Thought: In the approach of a more-than-human world (Vol. V, issue II: Fall, 2008).

    • di(versify: further testimony for that which cannot be (acertained

    (12 poems)
    published in the book Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, with Sense Publishers (Fall, 2009).

  • the snowflake: a casestudy (of creation


    • longlisted in CV2’s Annual 2 Day Poem Contest, 2008.

  • feeling is believing

    • re-published in Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education, Hampton Press (Spring, 2009). This poem was originally published in Paideusis.

    • a sentence (for life
    • the light of silence

    published in Van Gogh’s Ear, Vol. 6, 2008.

    • seven years later

    won 3rd place in Byron’s Quill Award for Poetry (published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Fall 2007, vol. 4)

    • shifting (of obligations
    • in prisms (of facts

    published in Contemporary Verse 2 (Fall, 2007).

    published in Educational Insights: on-line journal of the Center for Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education (in their Word—an Issue of Language, Volume 12, Number 1, 2008.

    • inhabitions

    won first place in the Manitoba Writer’s Guild friend’s contest (July, 2007).

    • Toward a Pedagogy of the Imagination

      • (six poems)

    published as part of a paper So Much Truth, So Much Being: Poetic Provocations to Philosophical Musings in Paideusis Vol. 16, No. 2 (2007).

    • symmetry
    • diwali (festival of light
    • public display of disaffection
    • beware of dog

    published in dANDelion 33:1 (June 2007).

    • an introduction to semantic collapse
    • emergent river of meaning
    • a meta eulogy

    published in Contemporary Verse 2 vol. 29 issue 3 (winter, 2007).

    published in The Arabesque Review (both online and in print), Feb. 2007.

    2nd place in Pandora’s Collective contest, Feb. 2007.

    3rd place in Pandora’s Collective contest, Feb.2007.

    • To Carry Across: Metaphor Invents Us
      (seven poems)

    published in Paideusis vol.15:2 (Nov. 2006).

    published in The Capilano Review, issue 2:49.

    • shifting point

    won 1st place in Can we exist without Es? contest, Existere, Nov. 2006.

    • the thirteenth child

    Honorable Mention in SIWC poetry contest, 2006.

    1st place in Pandora’s Collective contest, Summer 2006. (later published on Poets Against War)

    2nd place in Pandora’s Collective contest, Summer 2006. (later published on Poets Against War)

    1st place in Pandora’s Collective contest, Spring 2006.

    2nd place in Pandora’s Collective poetry contest, Spring 2006.

    • hyacinth blue

    published in Room of One’s Own issue 29:3 (Fall, 2006).

    • suddenly leaves

    published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Winter 2005 issue.

    • Writing Group

    published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Summer 2005 issue.

    • a quiet in the bones

    presented as part of a community theatre play Take a Breath (Roundhouse Community Center, Nov., 2004),

    • the scent of nettles

    won second place in the SIWC poetry contest, 2002.

    • To the Muse

    published in the Essex Chronicle Newsletter, England. Feb. 1993.

    • Misunderstood
    • The Father of Death

    published in Password: The Magazine of the English Department, Sofia University, No. 1, April 1992.

    BOOK REVIEWS:

    • Meaning Making: Learning through Logovisual Thinking. by Best, B., Blake, A., & Varney, J. (2005) published in Teaching Education Volume 17, Number 4 (December 2006).
    • Go Leaving Strange by Patrick Lane published in Quills, Autumn 2004.
    • Speaking Effectively: Strategies for Academic Interaction by Janet Kayfetz and Michaele Smith. published in The Ohio TESOL Newsletter, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Spring 1994.
    • Heinemann Elementary English Grammar by Digby Beaumont published in Practical English Teaching (vol. 14, no. 1), September 1993.
    • Writing 3 by Andrew Littlejohn published in Practical English Teaching (vol. 14, no.2), December, 1993.

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