Neile Graham's poetry is breathtaking and stern, abducting her audience into a realm of disturbing yet beautiful detail and experience.
—Bumbershoot Arts Festival Schedule
- "The Gods of Old Homes and New" (issue PDF available here) in Polar Starlight 5 (April 2022)
- "The God of Hermits" in Mad Swirl (13 February 2022)
- "The Goddess of the Vagueries of Fate" (PDF available here) in Polar Starlight 4 (December 2021)
- "The God of the Wobbly Menagerie" (PDF available here) in Polar Starlight 3 (October 2021)
- "God of the Apocalypse" (PDF available here) in Polar Starlight 2 (June 2021)
- "The Goddess of Wonder" and "Blood Spells" (PDF available here) in Polar Starlight 1 (March 2021)
- "The Gods of Piled Stones" in Mad Swirl (March 10 2020)
- "Marion of Sherwood" in Polar Borealis Magazine 12 (November/December 2019)
- "The God of Tempests" in Mirror Dance (Autumn 2019)
- "The God of the In-Between" in Mad Swirl (September 12 2019)
- "Mad Swirl (June 28 2019)
- "The Empty City" in Polar Borealis 6 (April/May 2019)
- "The Goddess of Laying Words Down One By One" in Liminality 19 (Spring 2019)
- "The Hoh Rain Forest Trail Circles" in Ecopoetry Washington
- "St Kilda's Hope" in Polu Texni (1 October 2018)
- "The God of Salt and Saltuses" in Polar Borealis 6 (July/August 2018)
- "Persephone Explains The Dark" in Eye To The Telescope 3 (July 2018, you need to scroll down to reach my poem)
- "Minidoka Dump" in The Literary Nest 4:2 (Summer 2018)
- "Spell for the Seduction of Bees" in Twisted Moon 3 (2018)
- "The Ghost In My Life" in Polar Borealis 6 (April/May 2018)
- Five-poem suite: "The Goddess of Grace," "The Midwinter Gods," "The Goddess of Broken Things," "What I Mean When I Talk About Ruins," and "The Goddess of Naps" in Cascadia Subduction Zone 8:1 (January 2018, issue PDF here)
- "The God of Unmendable Things" in The Literary Nest 3:3 (Fall 2017)
- "The Goddess of the Sea-facing World" in Kaleidotrope 13 (Autumn 2017)
- "The Alchemy of Arsenic" in Liminality 13 (Autumn 2017)
- "Behold And Beholden" in Liminality 10 (Winter 2016/2017)
- "Persephone Crosses The Styx" in Eternal Haunted Summer (Winter Solstice 2016)
- "Spell for the Gleaning of Water" in Twisted Moon (1 November 2016)
- "The Ozette Tartan" in Interfictions 7 (October 2016)
- "Summering Spell" in Through The Gate (30 September 2016)
- "The God of This Wind" in Remixt 1:3 (September 2016)
- "Feles Alieni Vere Sunt" in Devilfish Review 17 (July 2016)— Rhysling Award nominee)
- "The Gods Of Enough" in Polu Texni (4 July 2016)
- "Pyrrha" in Eternal Haunted Summer (Summer Solstice 2016)
- "Selene Dresses The Darkness" in Polu Texni (13 June 2016)
- "Clear-Cut Spirit Song," The Goddess of the Unseen," "The Gods of Tales" in Cascadia Subduction Zone 6:2 (April 2016, click for PDF version of entire issue)
- "The Sense of Beginning" in Stone Telling 13 (January, 2016)
- "Portrait of Skara Brae" in Through The Gate 8 (October 2015)
- "The Sea Roads" in Liminality 4 (Summer 2015)
- "Auchindrain Inventory: Village Museum" in Interfictions 5 (June 2015)
- "Cassandra Now" in Through The Gate 6 (Spring 2015)
- "The Alchemy" in Goblin Fruit (Winter 2014/2015)
- "The Lark, The Peat, The Star, and Our Time" in Liminality 2 (Winter 2014/2015)
- "Chant for Summer Darkness in Northwest Climes" in Goblin Fruit (Summer is Dead 2014)
- "On The Excarnations of the Gods" in Apex Magazine 65 (October 2014)
- "Cairn By Dark By Cairn" in Apex Magazine 62 (July 2014)
- "The God of Lost Things"in Strange Horizons (April 21, 2014)
- "With Bats in Our Belfry, Dear, Earth Water and Sky" in Stone Telling 9 (February, 2013):
- "On Skye" in The Far Field (Washington State Poet Laureate Program, Washington State Poets and Poetry, December 5, 2012)
- "Learning My Way Around," "The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light," "Old Woman of the Moors Returns the Call," "The Ones Outside Your Door," "Westron Wind"in Goblin Fruit (Fall 2011 Feature)
- "Nightfall on Orkney: A Glosa" in Goblin Fruit (Winter 2011)
- "How To Explore The Land of Your Ancestors" in Redheaded Stepchild (Fall 2010)
- "Three Stone Row / the false men" in Goblin Fruit (Autumn 2009)
- "True Thomas at Secret Cove", "The Woman Giving Birth to Air" in Goblin Fruit (Summer 2009)
- "Corriecravie/Torr A'Chaisteil" in Blue Skies Poetry (May 14, 2009)
- "Snap of the Sightseeing Self" in Blue Skies Poetry (May 11, 2009)
- "Dsonoqua Daughters" in Goblin Fruit (Spring 2009)
- "Dsonoqua on Lewis, The Outer Hebrides" in Strange Horizons (14 January 2008)
- "Wish-Stone at Dunnottar"in Strange Horizons (28 May 2007)
- "The Bones of the Tale" in Strange Horizons (28 November 2005)
- "In Blood On Stone In Bone" in Strange Horizons (2 May 2005)
- "Ways To Transcend The Spiritual," "The Cairn By The Road," "Dwarfie Stane, Isle of Hoy" in Lynx: Poetry from Bath (1998)
- "Heart of Stone" in CutBank 19 (1982)
- "About God(s)(desses), Part 1," "About God(s)(desses), Part 2" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 38 (July 2018)
- "Petraphilia" in Prairie Fire 39.2 (2018)
- "You Put a Spell On Me," "Helen's Reverie and Then Some," "Cannibal Spirit Dance" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 34 (July 2016)
- "Transformation Song" in The Malahat Review 189 (Winter 2014)
- "Bean Nighe: The Washer At The Ford" in Not One of Us 51 (2014)
- "Ksampguiyaeps Woman-Out-to-Sea," "Hermitage" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 29 (Fall 2013)
- "The Green Green Rain" in Mythic Delirium 26 (2013)
- "3 St. Ronan's Drive" in Queen's Quarterly 118:2 (Summer 2011)
- "Put Out The Light" in Prairie Fire 32:1 (Spring 2011)
- "Aged Black, Morning Green" in Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009)
- "Machrie Moor" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 24 (Fall 2009)
- "Atlantic Pacific," "Haida Gwaii Journal May 1982" in Dream Catcher 23 (2009)
- "Thunderbird Comes From the Sunset" in The Malahat Review 165 (2008)
- "Egg and Sky Skye and Eigg" in The Malahat Review 160 (2007)
- "The Tattoos I Don't Have" and "Westness Walk" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 20 (2007)
- "Lockerbie" in Full Unit Hookup 8 (2006)
- "Giant's Graves Forest Trail1 Painted by Numbers" in The Malahat Review 155 (2006)
- "Hunting The Lady Well" in Canadian Literature 186 (2005)
- "1773" in LitRag 19 (2005)
- "The Mainland Tour: Orkney" in Thin Air 0013 (2005)
- Canadian Literature 178 (2003): "Westward Ever Dreaming"
- Grain 29:4 (2002): "Carnasserie Castle"
- Arc 47 (2001): "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" (Editor's Choice)
- LitRag 11 (2001): "The Grey Cairns of Camster"
- Arc 45 (2000): "Meditation at La Push"
- LitRag 8 (2000): "Answers for the Phone Surveyor," "Consider Teiresias"
- Magazine of Speculative Poetry 4.4 (2000): "The Fisher's Daughter"
- Seattle Neighborhood Arts Celebration program (February 12, 2000): "Sea Glass From Execution Rock"
- TickleAce 37 (2000): "The Walk She Takes," "What Comes of Winter"
- Arc 43 (1999): "Beneath the Sign Marked Maidens >9" (Editor's Choice)
- Contemporary Verse 2 22.1 (1999): "Alchemical Daughter"
- Star*Line 22.3 (1999): "Map of the Ancient World," "My Love Out Riding"
- Canadian Literature 159 (1998): "Delicate as the Shapes of Spirits"
- Arc 41 (1998): "Lucidity" (Editor's Choice)
- PoetsWest 1:3 (1998): "Reconstructing a Life," "On Skye," "Dwarfie Stane, Isle of Hoy"
- Arc 39 (1997): "Ravenous" (Editor's Choice)
- Museletter May (1995): "On Skye"
- Toronto Star (December 9, 1995): "Settled in Montana for Winter"
- The Dalhousie Review 73.1 (1994): "Electra to Orestes: Against the Furies"
- Earth's Daughters 42 (1994): "I was a Pagan Baby"
- Poet Lore 89.1 (1994): "The Game of Cards," "Loving The Green Man"
- Arc 31 (1993): "The Tree in the World"
- Prism 31.4 (1993): "Tomb of the Eagles"
- University of Windsor Review 26.2 (1993): "Story 1," "Woman at the Edge of the World"
- Canadian Literature 133 (1992): "White Lies"
- Grain 20.2 (1992): "Fool's Gold on the Snow," "Tuppence in Pocket"
- The Antigonish Review 85-86 (1991): "Four Crow Photographs," "The Lovers in Grey"
- Arc 26 (1991): "Postcard of O'Keeffe," "Winter or Goodbye"
- NeWest Review 16.3 (1991): "My Father Among the Mayans," "Sooke River Story"
- Quarry 40.4 (1991): "Sea Glass from Execution Rock," "Tam Lin"
- Primavera 14/15 (1991): "Midfire"
- Poet Lore 85.3 (1990): "Why I Would Think I am Leaving"
- The New Quarterly 4.4 (1990): "Heat and the City," "Woman in Bath"
- Canadian Literature 121 (1989): "So We Know It's Not Just Us"
- Contemporary Verse 2 12.1 (1989): "Hero at the Gates of Hell," "Shoah"
- Dandelion 16.2 (1989): "My Grandmother's Photograph"
- Queen's Quarterly 96.2 (1989): "Berlin Dreams"
- The Dalhousie Review 67.4 (1988): "What is the Poison Named?"
- Descant 18.4 (1987): "Settled in Montana for Winter," "Sleeping with Lambs"
- Mississippi Mud (1987): "Parable of the Headwaters"
- Canadian Literature 112 (1987): "The Prophet as Traveller," "Salamander Pendant"
- Calyx 10.1 (1986): "Lakeside Inventory"
- The Greenfield Review 13.3-4 (1986): "Map of Vancouver Island"
- Northern Lights II.3 (1986): "Four Pole Crow Burial Scaffold; A Hillside in Spring"
- Wind 15.3 (1985): "The Master of Winter"
- Ariel 14.3 (1983): "The Name of the Hunt"
- Canadian Literature 98 (1983): "Anything You Say," "High Water," "Saltspring," "Swutlak Builds False Spring"
- Prairie Fire 4.4 (1983): "Aside," "Candle Making"
- The Antigonish Review 55 (1982): "Cassandra," "Photograph"
- CutBank 19 (1982): "Heart of Stone"
- Dandelion 9.2 (1982): "The Man's Dark Voice"
- Island 11 (1982): "Journal in February"
- The Malahat Review 61 (1982): "The Seasons Break Their Shapes," "`Sky Dark, Cloudless and Starless,'" "St. Maudlin (La Folle)"
- Origins 12.3 (1982): "December," "House with a Breeze," "The Manuscript"
- The Wascana Review 17.1 (1982): "In Reply to Your Letter"
- WOT 4.1 (1982): "Amazones & The Birdmen," "Naming," "The Stolen Bird"
- The Fiddlehead 128 (1981): "Seven Robins," "How I'll Never Get Out," "Home Out of Place"
- From an Island (1980): "Sky is That Moment"
- WOT 2.2 (1980): "As I'm Talking to You," "The End of the Long Season"
- From an Island (1979): "Voices from a New World"
- "The Forester's Stratagem" in Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, eds. R.B. Lemberg and Lisa M. Bradley (Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2021)
- The 2018 Rhysling Anthology (USA: Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2018): "The Alchemy of Arsenic"
- The 2017 Rhysling Anthology (USA: Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2017): "Feles Alieni Vere Sunt"
- With Lyre and Bow: A Devotional in Honor of Apollo (Bibliotheca Alexandrina: 2016): "Daphne"
- Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2014 (Toronto, ON: Chizine Press, 2016): "Chant For Summer Darkness in Northwest Climes," "The God of Lost Things," "The Lark, The Peat, The Star and Our Time"
- Strange Horizons: Favorites of the Last Fifteen Years (Strange Horizons, 2015): "Dsonoqua on Lewis, The Outer Hebrides"
- The 2015 Rhysling Anthology (USA: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2015): "The Alchemy"
- Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (Toronto, ON: Chizine Press/Tightrope Books, 2105): "Ksampguiyaeps Woman-Out-to-Sea"
- The 2012 Rhysling Anthology (USA: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2012): "The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light"; "The Ones Outside Your Door"
- Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (Toronto, ON: Chizine Press/Tightrope Books, 2012): "The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light"; "The Ones Outside Your Door"
- The Moment of Change (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2012): "Dsonoqua Daughters"
- Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Granada Hill, CA: Red Hen Press, 2008): "On Skye"
- Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She. Poems from The Feminist Caucus (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 2007): "Dsonoqua Daughters"
- The Long Journey: Pacific Northwest Poets (Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 2006): "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns," "The Walk She Takes"
- And No One Knows The Blood We Share: Poems from the Feminist Caucus (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 2005): "On Skye"
- Anthology One (Delaware: The Alsop Review Press, 2004): "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns," "The Walk She Takes," "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun"
- New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2000): "Sea Glass From Execution Rock"
- Pontoon 4 (Seattle, WA: Floating Bridge Press, 2000): "Kilmichael Glassary"
- We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada's Poets, 1978 to 1998 (Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University Press/Arc, 1998): "The Tree in the World"
- Vintage 95 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry, 1996): "On Skye," "Walking the Land's Edge, Orkney"
- Vintage 93 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry, 1994): "September, New York," "Tomb of the Eagles"
- Vintage 92 (Victoria, B.C./Toronto: Sono Nis Press/League of Canadian Poets, 1993): "Gravestones at Elgin Cathedral"
- A Discord of Flags: Canadian Poets Write About the Gulf War (Toronto: A Discord of Flags, 1992): "There As Here There Are No Doors"
- Something More Than Words (Victoria: Reference West, 1991): "Alban Eiler: A Calling-On Song"
- More Garden Varieties Two (Toronto: Aya/Mercury/League of Canadian Poets, 1990): "Storyteller Talking at the End of Her Days," "Washing at Sunset"
- 1984 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, ed. Alan Pater (Hollywood: Monitor Book Company, 1984): "Photograph"
- The Parthenon Poetry Anthology ed. Angelo Aaron Schmuller (Rockaway, NY: Parthenon Publishing, 1981): "Seven Robins"
- Student Oracle, ed. Noel Hudson-Jones and Julian Ross (Nelson, B.C.: David Thompson University Centre, 1979): "Cremation," "River"
- Odyssey 7 (1998): "Ars Poetica"
- Odyssey 1 (1997): "Furious"
- "Introduction" in Pocket Workshop, ed. Tod McCoy and M. Huw Evans (Seattle: Hydra House, forthcoming February 2021.
- "The Work of a Workshop" in Uncanny 21 (2018).
- "John Barton" in The Malahat Review At Fifty: Canada's Iconic Literary Journal, ed. John Barton (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Libraries, 2018)
- "Diversity At Clarion West" in The WisCon Chronicles (Vol 9): Intersections and Alliances ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj (Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2015).
- "Urban Designs" in The Urban/Rural Experience ed. Maya Bannerman. Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1996). Later republished online in The Salmon Bay Review.
- "Poetry as DNA" in Reinventing Memory ed. Anne Burke. Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets (Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1994). Later republished online in The Salmon Bay Review, then in Imprints and Casualties ed. Anne Burke. (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Broken Jaw Press, 2000): "Poetry as DNA"
- "Incense: Robin Skelton's 'Burning Sticks, Mallorca,'" Arc 44 (2000)
- Blind Criticism of "Untitled" (muse)Letters (Spring 1997)
- Review of Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Calyx 14.1 (1992)
- Review of Speaking in Tongues by Maura Simon, Calyx 14.1 (1992)
- "A Desert Full of Glass," review of A Nostalgist's Map of America by Agha Shahid Ali, Poet Lore 87:1 (1992)
- "Going the Distance," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Winter 1992)
- Review of The Green Dream by Olga Cabral, Calyx 13.3 (1991-92)
- Review of Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton, Calyx 13.3 (1991-92)
- "Food for Body and Mind," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Summer/Fall 1991)
- "Victoria(n) Bookstores," a bookstore review by Nelly & Fred, Upstream (Spring 1991)
- Review of Magpie on the Gallows by Madeline DeFrees, Calyx 11.1 (1987)
- Review of Cascades by Pamela Stewart, Calyx 11.1 (1987)
- "Missoula," article (with James Gurley), Northwest Illustrated Artpaper 1.6 (June 1986)
- Review of Erosion by Jorie Graham, CutBank 23 (1985)