Now celebrating its 29th year, this community-engagement project, made possible through a partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, is an opportunity to showcase BC’s regional poets. Each year, we invite submissions of BC-authored poems from Canadian publishers and select 10 local poets to be featured in the campaign.
The 2025-26 Poetry in Transit selected poets and featured books are:
- “Listening to Marigolds” by Susan Alexander, Bowen Island, BC – Berberitzen (Raven Chapbooks & Rainbow Publishers)
- “A Shadow’s Cat” by Jen Currin, New Westminster, BC – Trinity Street (House of Anansi Press)
- “he has beautiful flowering trees this elder neighbour” by Junie Désil, Lasqueti Island, BC – allostatic load (Talonbooks)
- “Fortunes” by Renée Harper, Nelson, BC – Boundary Territory (Now or Never Publishing) 5. “Mori Point” by Joseph Kidney, Vancouver, BC – Devotional Forensics (Goose Lane Editions)
- “On Bouldering” by Natalie Lim, Vancouver, BC – Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
- “Eagle” by Christine Lowther, Tla-o-qui-aht territory (Tofino), BC – Hazard, Home (Caitlin Press)
- “Freight Train” by Lauren Peat, Vancouver, BC – Future Tense (Baseline Press) 9. “A City Most at Home in the Rain” by Tom Wayman, Winlaw, BC – Out of the Ordinary (Harbour Publishing)
- “Do This, Do That: Exercise 2” by Calvin Wharton, North Vancouver, BC – This Here Paradise (Anvil Press)