New collection
And Now There Is Me
The newest collection: intimate, clear-eyed, emotionally brave, and alive with image.
View & purchase →Canadian poet, vocalist, mentor, visual artist
A vivid, generous voice from Bowen Island.
Jude Neale’s work feels alive in the hand: image-rich poems, a trained musical voice, generous teaching, collaborations across art forms, and new visual work full of colour and instinct. She makes the intimate feel expansive — family, weather, desire, grief, humour, memory, and the bright strangeness of ordinary life.
This is a home for the full Jude: books, readings, performances, praise, workshops, and the visual-art studio opening beside the poems.
Studio
Poems that paint. Paintings that sing.
Colour, texture, instinct, humour, and risk — the same pulse as the poems, now moving through visual art.
Explore the gallery →Performance
Voice on the page and in the room
A classically trained voice and a performer’s timing bring the written work into the air.
Listen to readings →Upcoming
Bowen Arts Tour 2026
May 23 & 24, 12 noon — Art Hub 12, Riddell/Buchanan Residence, Bowen Island. Poetry recitations both days.
About the work
A brief, intense look
Jude believes writing should move, elevate, and illuminate. Her poems are like snapshots appearing on the page: 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.
Island-rooted
A creative life with range
Books, music, teaching, collaborations, public readings, visual art — a long practice of noticing deeply and making boldly.
“Fresh, mesmerizing, original and exuberant… emotionally stunning poems that I recommend very highly.”
— Elisabeth Harvor