Poetry Reading: Named & Nameless

Name: Poetry Reading: Named & Nameless
Start: 2025-10-11T14:00:00-07:00
Location: St. Hildegard's Sanctuary

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

St. Hildegard's Sanctuary | Vancouver, BC

A warm invitation to an afternoon with poet Susan McCaslin, as she shares readings and reflections from her new collection of poetry Named & Nameless (Inanna Publications).

Saturday, October 11 at 2PM
St. Faith’s Anglican Church
7284 Cypress Street, Vancouver
Come for conversation and community.
About the book:
In this new collection of poetry, Susan McCaslin explores the meaning and significance of identity and all that can be found in a name, or, lack thereof. Mixing the personal with the societal, McCaslin explores her own past and women’s continued role in child-rearing. This dreamlike series of encounters with nature and the divine invites deep reflection through re-discovering the familiar. Her joyful wordplay invites us to notice the tiniest details and contemplate the divine
About Susan:
Susan McCaslin is a poet from Langley BC who has been writing since the age of twelve when she discovered the magic of great books and the power of poetic language. Her most recent volume of poetry is titled Named & Nameless (Inanna Publications). She is drawn to ancient mythology and the mystical traditions of many cultures and religions and experiences poetry as a musicality arising from silence. She has authored twenty volumes of poetry, twelve chapbooks, two poetry anthologies, a memoir, a volume of essays, a volume of creative non-fiction, and a collaborative book with J.S Porter on Thomas Merton titled Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (2018). She completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at UBC in 1984 and taught English and Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC for twenty-three years. In 2012, she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project, which drew on poetry to help save an endangered forest in Glen Valley near her home.