Seventeen poetry collections

Books by Jude Neale

Selected books from a prolific Canadian poet whose work moves through memory, place, relationship and the natural world.

Selected collections

Cover of Water Forgets Its Own Name by Jude Neale

Water Forgets Its Own Name

Poetry by Jude Neale in collaboration with the visual art of Nicholas Jennings, attentive to Bowen Island, memory and return.

Cover of The River Answers by Jude Neale

The River Answers

The natural world and human relationships meet in Jude’s distinctive Canadian voice.

Cover of Inside the Pearl by Jude Neale

Inside the Pearl

Written during Jude’s 2020 residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House, with photographs by Paul Hooson.

Cover of Cantata in Two Voices by Jude Neale and Bonnie Nish

Cantata in Two Voices

A collaborative work by Jude Neale and Bonnie Nish, written in fifty challenging days.

Recognition across the work

A Quiet Coming of Light: A Poetic Memoir was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Splendid in Its Silence won publication in the United Kingdom through the SPM Publications Poetry Book Competition. Jude’s poem “Blue Bowl” was a finalist for the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize.

Read Jude Neale’s official biography and selected recognition.