Launches
Books in the room
Launches, readings, and conversations around the work — the poetry has a public life, not just a page life.
Featured audio →Bowen Island’s inaugural Poet Laureate
A vivid, generous voice for Bowen Island.
This is the official literary website of Jude Neale, Bowen Island’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Canadian poet, vocalist, mentor, educator, and author.
Jude Neale’s work brings a musical ear to family, weather, memory, grief, humour, and the charged moments that shape a life.
Explore the books, poems, readings, performances, visual work, and mentoring that shape her creative life — including her new community role as Bowen Island’s Poet Laureate. Many of Jude’s books are now also available through Amazon.
Books
Books rooted in memory, landscape, music, and lived experience.
Explore Jude Neale’s published collections and collaborations, from newer island-rooted work to earlier books with Ekstasis and Guernica.
Poetry
Selected poems
Short, bright pieces that move through weather, family, desire, humour, grief, and sudden ordinary flashes.
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Performance
Voice in the room
A classically trained voice and a performer’s timing bring the written work into the air.
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Upcoming Event
Poetry in the Park — Featured Poet
Jude Neale will read as one of two featured poets on
Location: Centennial Lodge, Queen’s Park, New Westminster.
Poetry in the Park brings featured poets and an open mic together for a summer evening of poetry. All are welcome.
About the work
A brief, intense look
Jude writes toward compression and resonance: love, relationships, nature, desire, memory, and the flash of a moment before it disappears.
She often begins with a larger poem and whittles it down to its essential self — because in brevity lies power. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Ascent Aspirations, Quill, and literary journals; she has been shortlisted, highly commended, and named a finalist in international competitions.
Cantata in Two Voices
A collaborative poetry project with Bonnie Nish.
Splendid in Its Silence
SPM Prize-winning work with UK publication history.
Page, voice, and mentorship
A creative practice spanning books, readings, music, and teaching.
Creative range
A poet, vocalist, mentor, and visual artist.
Books, music, teaching, collaborations, Poet Laureate work, and public readings — a creative life built across page, voice, image, and community.
“Fresh, mesmerizing, original and exuberant… emotionally stunning poems that I recommend very highly.”
— Elisabeth Harvor