events
For the Birds
Sponsored by Salt Spring Arts, we welcomed spring with this evening dedicated to the inspiration of birds, from Kwakiutl Raven Clan legend to performance poetry, from multi-part harmony to songbird calls.
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A tribute to Leonard Cohen
The spring after Leonard Cohen died I worked with Salt Spring Arts executive director Yael Wand to organize an evening of poetry and song celebrating his life.
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poems
Elegy for David Britt
An elegy for my friend David Britt, written in the days after his opioid-related death.
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Renewal Scourge
The different afterlives of Mohamed Bouazizi and Mark Duggan. First published in Poetry 24.
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press
Pearl Pirie Interview, 2022
Part of a series of check-ins poet and publisher Pearl Pirie did with poets she’s collaborated with or published over the years, this wide ranging 2022 interview includes lots of details on Nedjo’s recent artistic work.
Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2016
Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood: Solo Trois-Rivières Tales Show Delivers Full Package. Humour, politics, and rhyme meet in Nedjo Rogers Show.
projects
A Country In Between
Written for performance, the two pieces that make up the chapbook A Country In Between celebrate gender diversity in literature and history, with stories of the “master mistress” of Shakespeare’s passion and Joan of Arc, gender rebel.
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Blackberries
In 2017, working closely with librarian Karen Hudson, I coordinated a project that produced a chapbook bringing together poetry from featured presenters and open mic poets from the Salt Spring Library Poetry Open Mic.
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The Trois-Rivières Tales
I premiered this solo mock epic in verse at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 2014 then reprised it in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island in 2017.
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YourSeanceInVerse.com
Where the dead speak in rhymes! Join in the seance and watch out for demons as a call centre employee channels first a character from Shakespeare’s sonnets and then the Greek goddess Persephone.
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