Audio poet Hilary Peach is an inter-disciplinary performer whose work marries song and poetry. For 15 years she has performed internationally at events that include the Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, Montreal’s Voix Des Ameriques, and the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. She has released an exquisite debut CD, Poems Only Dogs Can Hear, in which she suspends surreal vignettes inside a matrix of music. Peach was a finalist in the 2004 CBC Radio Poetry Face-Off, and has recently released a short film, Pennsylvania. She is currently working on a literary collection of poetry and a Folk Opera about her boilermaking work called Suitcase Local with musicians Andreas Kahre, Alex Varty and Leah Hokanson. Hilary Peach is Artistic Director of the Poetry Gabriola Festival.
Poems Only Dogs Can Hear (2003)
Love Is A Small Town (Wave7Press, 2001) ISBN: 0-929075-12-9
Flowered Cactus (Wave7Press, 1995) ISBN: 0-929075-08-0
Fresh Tracks: Writing The Western Landscape (Polestar Book Publishers, Victoria BC, 1998) ISBN: 1-896095-42-9
RIBSAUCE a cd/anthology of words by women (Recording, Vehicule Press and Wired On Words, Montreal, Quebec, 2001) ISBN: 1-55065-150-1
Capilano Review Series 2:9 (Capilano Press, North Vancouver, British Columbia, 1992) ISBN: 0315-3754
Poems Only Dogs Can Hear (Audio CD, 2003) $15.00
Gabriola Island BC
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1-250-247-7604
hilarypeach@yahoo.ca
http://www.poetrygabriola.com/