Launches
Books in the room
Launches, readings, and conversations around the work — the poetry has a public life, not just a page life.
Featured audio →Canadian poet, vocalist, mentor, educator
A vivid, generous voice from Bowen Island.
This is the official literary website of Jude Neale, the Canadian poet, vocalist, mentor, educator, and Bowen Island author.
Jude Neale’s work brings a musical ear to family, weather, memory, grief, humour, and the charged moments that shape a life.
Explore the books, poems, readings, performances, visual work, and mentoring that shape her creative life. Many of Jude’s books are now also available through Amazon.
Books
Books rooted in memory, landscape, music, and lived experience.
Explore Jude Neale’s published collections and collaborations, from newer island-rooted work to earlier books with Ekstasis and Guernica.
Poetry
Selected poems
Short, bright pieces that move through weather, family, desire, humour, grief, and sudden ordinary flashes.
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Performance
Voice in the room
A classically trained voice and a performer’s timing bring the written work into the air.
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Event Update
Bowen Arts Tour 2026
With apologies, Jude is unable to participate in the Bowen Arts Tour this weekend due to illness. Thank you for your understanding, and warm wishes to everyone attending and taking part.
About the work
A brief, intense look
Jude writes toward compression and resonance: love, relationships, nature, desire, memory, and the flash of a moment before it disappears.
She often begins with a larger poem and whittles it down to its essential self — because in brevity lies power. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Ascent Aspirations, Quill, and literary journals; she has been shortlisted, highly commended, and named a finalist in international competitions.
Cantata in Two Voices
A collaborative poetry project with Bonnie Nish.
Splendid in Its Silence
SPM Prize-winning work with UK publication history.
Page, voice, and mentorship
A creative practice spanning books, readings, music, and teaching.
Creative range
A poet, vocalist, mentor, and visual artist.
Books, music, teaching, collaborations, and public readings — a creative life built across page, voice, image, and community.
“Fresh, mesmerizing, original and exuberant… emotionally stunning poems that I recommend very highly.”
— Elisabeth Harvor