"In this book you will find a door to a world deep within yourself. These elegant poems, written in deceptively simple language, brim with truth about living and being." —Jess Malkin MA, MSW. Therapist and Artist
"Lisa Shatzky ponders whether "maybe most things exist outside of words" however, through her words she takes her audience on a journey of self—reflection, inviting us to embrace the mysteries, to live the questions, showing us that vulnerability is the key to connection in this world we live in. She also invites us to find the music in the silence, to keep on loving and that there is A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Earth. Once again, get ready to have your heart swept open by another collection of unforgettable poems." —Ruta Yawney, MA, RCC, FAMI Registered Clinical Counsellor

Lisa Shatzky's poetry has been published in The Vancouver Review, Room Magazine, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Canadian Literature, Canadian Woman Studies, The Prairie Journal, Jones Av., Grain, The New Quarterly, Monday's Poem, and six chapbooks by Leaf Press (edited by Patrick Lane) along with anthologies across Canada and the US. Her poetry book Blame it on the Moon was published by Black Moss Press in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2014 Acorn Plantos Award for People's Poetry. Her poetry book Do Not Call Me By My Name, also published by Black Moss Press (2011), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Poetry Award in 2012. Shatzky has also had prose published in Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast (Key Publishing, 2012) as well as poetry in This Island We Celebrate, published by the Bowen Island Arts Council in 2013. Shatzky is already setting up poetry readings across BC, in Toronto, and in Montreal for her new poetry collection, When the Colours Run.

Many reviews of her work can be found online and on Black Moss Press' website. Over the past two years Lisa Shatzky has done poetry readings of her work on Bowen Island, Salt Spring Island, Hornby Island, Cortes Island, Quadra Island, in Nanaimo, Nelson, Castlegar, Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Hope, Whistler, Pemberton, Toronto, Caledon, Montreal, Quebec City, and at the University of British Columbia, Douglas College, Simon Fraser University, McGill University, Concordia University, and UQUAM.

When not writing she runs marathons as a way of meditation and works as a psychotherapist on Bowen Island, BC, where she lives on a boat with her partner Don, her teenagers, a dog called Sherman, and three cats.

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