Candice James has served two terms as poet laureate for the city of New Westminster. She has also been President of the Royal City Literary Arts Society and the recipient of WIN 2013 Distinguished Poet Award. Her Ekphrasticism - Painted Words (Silver Bow Publishing 2014) is a collection of writing inspired by the paintings of Don Portelance included in the book.

BOOKS:

A Split in the Water (Fiddlehead 1979)

Inner Heart (Silver Bow, 2010)

Bridges And Clouds (Silver Bow Publishing 2011) 978-0-9868097-8-1 $15

Midnight Embers: A Book of Sonnets (Libros Libertad 2012)

Shorelines (Silver Bow Publishing, 2013)

Ekphrasticism - Painted Words (Silver Bow Publishing 2014) 978-1-927616-11-6 $34.95 Pgs 178 (82 full colour paintings; 82 poems to the paintings)

Purple Haze (Libros Libertad 2014) $18.00 978-1-926763-31-6

[BCBW 2014]