Cynthia Woodman Kerkham was raised in Toronto, Hong Kong and Vancouver. In her debut poetry collection, Good Holding Ground (Palimpset Press 2011), Cynthia Woodman Kerkham explores and investigates marriage, family, death, gratitude and desire. She later co-edited Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press 2013 $20), edited by Yvonne Blomer and Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, featuring 117 poems from the Planet Earth Poetry platform in Victoria that is named after the late P.K. Page's poem 'Planet Earth.' 978-1-926655-58-1

[BCBW 2013]