Edited by Lorna Crozier
The Sounds of My Whole Small Life is a chapbook of poetry crafted in the spring of 2026 following one of Lorna Crozier’s poetry writing retreats. The work of 16 poets—Liz Huntly, Susan Haldane, Callista Markotich, Cybelle Rieber, Susan Wismer, Sheila Stewart, Leela Viswanathan, Mary-Alice Thompson, LM Rochefort, Heather Lindsay, Jane French, Sandra Campbell, Shauna Haugan, Susan Publicover, Ashley Prince, and Linseed Toner-Calmusky—is featured in this collection. Lorna edited the work, with the editorial and administrative assistance of Rena Upitis. Cover design by Rena Upitis.
Lorna Crozier has published many books of poetry and a memoir. An Officer of the Order of Canada she’s been acknowledged for her writing, her contribution to literature, and her mentoring and teaching with five honourary doctorates, the most recent from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. A beloved teacher at the University of Victoria for over twenty years and an instructor at Banff and Sage Hill, Lorna now flexes her teaching muscles at Wintergreen. She’s taught there since 2010 and it’s become a second home.
$15.00 cdn | us
6 x 9 pb, 45 pages
poetry / anthology
isbn 978-1989321362
Publication: Oct 2026
Available on Amazon.
The Sounds of My Whole Small Life is a collection of poetry published in the spring of 2026 following a poetry writing retreat facilitated by Lorna Crozier.
Hand Shadows is collection of poetry by Susan Wismer and images from danceworks developed by Michele Green and Suzette Sherman during the pandemic in Guelph, Ontario.
This is How You Do It is a collection of poetry published in the autumn of 2024 following a poetry writing retreat facilitated by Lorna Crozier.
The Weight of Two Oranges is a collection of poetry and photography set in Eastern Ontario and Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Lynda Wilde explores issues of belonging, loss, and love.
Book of Night is a collection of poetry published in the autumn of 2023 following a poetry writing retreat facilitated by Lorna Crozier.
These Small Hours is a collection of poetry crafted during the fall of 2022 during a poetry writing retreat facilitated by Lorna Crozier.
Our fourth cookbook filled with gourmet recipes… from the Wintergreen kitchen! Featuring more plant-based dishes, recipes to accommodate dietary preferences (gluten-free and non-dairy), and more offerings that include the wild food that now grows abundantly at Wintergreen, the collection here presents a tasty and nourishing cuisine that works for all appetites and needs.
Pink Flamingos is a collection of poetry crafted during the fall of 2021 during a poetry writing retreat facilitated by Lorna Crozier.
Early years teachers and parents will find this book a rich source of activities, bound to increase children's ability to self-regulate and to learn.
This collection of sixty songs represents the lyrics written by GW Rasberry, compiled during his sixtieth year on the planet.
This Wine Into Water is a collection of poetry crafted during the fall of 2018 during one of Lorna Crozier’s poetry writing retreats.
Camino is a book and an homage to an exceedingly long walk, music played en route, and four friends who are now three.
An outstanding collection of poetry crafted at Wintergreen in 2017 as part of a workshop with Canadian poet Lorna Crozier.
The writing in this collection is born out of ritual: the grinding of coffee beans and the gathering of words, day after day, word after word. A poem to mark each day of the year.
The first collection of poetry, edited by Lorna Crozier, that was produced by the poets of Wintergreen.
Told with the excitement of a novel, Singing Meadow is the inspirational story of a couple searching for and creating a small, simple home in a beautiful, natural setting.
How the Light is Spent is a meditation on love and loss, on time and tempo. From the Drumheller Badlands to Istanbul, Turkey and back to Canada, Gail Sidonie Sobat scores the light and the shadow of human relationships, composing an etude of how best to mark our allotted time.
The collected works contained in this volume were produced by the students who worked with Helen Humphreys over three summer sessions at Wintergreen, as they observed and interacted with the land that is part of the ancient granite spine of North America.
Moved by the observation that there are moments in life which call for more than positive thinking and visualization, the authors have constructed simple phrases to soothe, clarify and inspire through times of grief and joy.
Zeke O’Connor, founding President of the Sir Edward Hillary Foundation, tells how this foundation supported the Nepalese Sherpas to build their own medical clinics and schools, to establish literacy programs for women, and to spearhead a reforestation project that saw the planting of over 2 million seedlings over a 30-year span.
This engaging autobiographical account traces the remarkable life and career of John Meisel, Canadian political scientist, professor, and public intellectual. The memoir is witty and insightful, filled with stories and personalities that will both inspire and challenge readers the world over.
When we published our first cookbook in 2011, the book was scarcely off the press before guests started asking us when the next book would be coming out.
Lighting the Global Lantern is designed for secondary school and college educators and their students, and anyone with a teen-aged spirit who wants to learn more about the aha! poetry of our time.
If we take seriously the notion that school buildings present students with powerful messages about what society values, then school architecture needs to be radically re-thought.