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Purple
Poets
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Friends 
and Peace

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Her latest collection of poetry, I can still draw published in 2008, was shortlisted for the Lowther Memorial Award.  For over a decade, she was the artist-in-residence at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Most recently, as well as drawing the Purple Poets at their International Womens' Day dance, Heather  was the artist-in-residence for the Jewish Book Festival 2010.

Some of her literary artwork and poems from Aark Arts, issue 2
(edited by Sudeep Sen) are featured on the SouthBank Library site:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642

She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specialising in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.

Heather Spears is a member of PEN, The League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, SF Canada, The Society of Authors, and Tegnernes Forbund (Danish Graphic Artist's Federation).

The Heather Spears archive is housed at the University of British Columbia in Vanouver and is available for use by researchers and others interested. Many of Heather Spears’s drawings have been purchased by the Wellcome Trust. Other images by Heather can be found in the Wellcome Library of images, and are available for reproduction /publication.

Heather supplied contemporary sketches
for the  National Portrait Gallery Workshop
(led by Fran Wilde, NPG, and Kim Morrissey WETB)
18.03.2010

SPECIAL GUEST POET AND ARTIST:
International Womens' Day Dance
Saturday March 6, 2010
Dick Collins Hall 4 p.m.

SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST
Camden Heroes Display
Camden Town Hall
National Poetry Day
Camden writers - sketches - display



SOME OF HEATHER SPEARS BOOKS:

Asylum Poems, Emblem, 1958 (poetry)
The Danish Portraits, Ryerson, 1967 (poetry)
From the Inside, Fiddlehead, 1972 (poetry)
Drawings from the Newborn, Ben-Simon, 1986 (poetry, 52 drawings)
How to Read Faces, Wolsak and Wynn, 1988 (poetry)
The Word for Sand, Wolsak and Wynn, 1989 (poetry)
Drawn from the Fire, Children of the Intifada 1989 (drawings)
Massacre, Drawings from Jerusalem, 1990 (drawings)
Human Acts, Wolsak and Wynn, 1991 (poetry)
Moonfall, Beach Holme Publications, 1991 (fiction)
The Children of Atwar, Beach Holme 1993 (fiction)
The Taming, Tesseracts 1996 (fiction)
The Panum Poems, Ekstasis 1996 (drawings and poems)
Selected and New Poems, Wolsak and Wynn 1998 (poetry)
Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000,
Wolsak and Wynn, 2000 (drawings and poems)
Line by Line, Ekstasis, 2002 (drawings of Canadian poets with their poems)
The Flourish, Ekstasis Noir, 2004 (documentary crime fiction)
- A Muted Voice, Saga-Whyte Publications, 2009 (edited and republished for Europe)
The Creative Eye, Arcturus, 2007 (non-fiction, on visual creativity)
I can still draw, Wolsak and Wynn, 2008 (poetry)


WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Stranger than a Wolf:
Modelling the Human Head,
Drawing the Figure in Motion,
The 50-Minute Cézanne.