For National Poetry Month, Caversham Booksellers presents Christina Shah, Rob Colman and Ronna Bloom.

Christina Shah lives in New Westminster and works in heavy industry, where she drinks from the firehose of knowledge. Her poetry has appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals. Her work has been shortlisted for the Fiddlehead’s 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2023. She is one-fifth of the Harbour Centre 5 poetry collective, whose chapbook, Brine, was released in 2022. Her first video poem, “rig veda” (in collaboration with videographer Mark Mushet), was translated into Spanish and screened internationally. rig veda, her first solo chapbook (Anstruther Press), received an honourable mention for the bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2024. if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) is her first full-length poetry collection.

Robert Colman is a poet, essayist and critic based in Newmarket, Ont. His fourth and most recent book of poems is Ghost Work (Palimpsest Press 2024).

Ronna Bloom is the author of eight books of poetry. Her work has been broadcast on CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and translated into Bangla and Chinese. She has led initiatives to bring poetry into health care settings, specifically developing the Poet-in-Residence program at Sinai Health and her poems have been used by filmmakers, choreographers, and architects. Her most recent book is In a Riptide (Brick Books, 2025.)

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