Press
CBC Interview: On Radio West
Listen to Jane Byers’s interview on CBC’s Radio West with Sarah Penton, October 2020
Xtra Magazine: Small Courage
49th Shelf: Stories about Motherhood List
Under the Cover: Excerpt from Small Courage
49th Shelf: Parenting Memoirs Reviewed
49th Shelf: Reasons to be Hopeful & Parenting Memoirs Reviewed
BC Ale Trail: Authors Paired Beer
Sinister Wisdom: Book Review
Read the review of Small Courage from Sinister Wisdom
Nelson Star: Interview with Jane Byers about Launch of Small Courage
“Two years ago when Jane Byers’ son Theo was in Grade five, a student insulted him with a racial slur.
“And what was really interesting,” Byers says, “was the rest of the class all said to this kid, in no uncertain terms, ‘Hey, that’s not cool. And you need to stop. That’s discrimination and you need to stop.’”
Ormsby Review: Small Courage Release Announcement
Writer Deryn Collier’s Blog: Small Courage Reviewed
Jane Byers is one of my very favourite people, so I’m pleased to be able to tell you about her latest book, Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family. What I love about Jane is that she doesn’t have time for small talk; she gets right down to it, which I guess might be why her chosen medium up to now has been poetry…
Authenticity Inc. Podcast: Kootenay Coop Radio with Cate Baio and Nicole Le Bihan
Nelson Star: Nelson Poet Launches Second Collection
“In Steeling Effects, Byers’ first poetrycollection published in 2014, theNelson poet explored her experiencewith resilience in the face of personalchallenges.” October, 2016
Plentitude Magazine: “An Act of Empathy and Imagination” Interview with Jane Byers
“Writer Jane Byers’s latest collection, Acquired Community, is coming out this fall with publisher Caitlin Press. Byers’s work can be seen all over the city, and this self-described writer and poet has no intention of slowing down any time soon. Byers’s new collection is due out in September and I had the honour of sitting down with her to talk about her new poems.” September, 2016
49th Shelf: Synopsis of ‘Acquired Community’
“Jane Byers' Acquired Community is both a collection of narrative poems about seminal moments in North American lesbian and gay history, mostly post-World War II, and a series of first person poems that act as a touchstone to compare the narrator's coming out experience within the larger context of the gay liberation movement.” October, 2016
Coastal Spectator: Review of ‘Steeling Effects’
“From the very first page, Jane Byers plunges readers into her gritty, beautiful first collection of poems as she prises apart her experiences of resilience, of hanging on, of enduring.” May, 2014
Plentitude Magazine: Outsider Perspectives, Jane Byers on Poetic Process
“Byers lives with her wife and two children in Nelson, British Columbia, where she writes about human resilience in the context of raising children, lesbian and gay issues, sexism, local geography and health and safety in the workplace.” March, 2014
Nelson Star: Poet Jane Byers launches book during National Poetry Month
“Published this spring by Caitlin Press, Steeling Effects has already attracted words of praise. Shannon Webb-Campbell, Critic-in-residence for Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, says that “Jane Byers’ poems are an incendiary experience of language, inflaming mind, heart, and embodiment. It’s a stunning debut collection of poetry, deeply queer, beautiful, and expansive.” April, 2014
Nelson Star: Nelson poet Jane Byers named winner of 2014 Richard Carver Award
“It’s been a good month for Nelson poet Jane Byers — not only did she receive the Richard Carver award at the Kootenay Literary Competition gala on March 14, but seven days prior to that her first book of poetry was published by Caitlin Press.” March, 2014