Allison Grayhurst

Allison Grayhurst has been nominated six times for “Best of the Net” for her poems in 2024/2018/2017/2015. She has over 1,400 poems published in more than 535 international journals and anthologies.

In 2018, her book Sight at Zero, was listed #34 on CBC’s “Your Ultimate Canadian Poetry List”.

In 2024, her work was translated into Italian and published in “Italia News Media – Alessandria Today”, into Albanian in “Orfeu.AL” and in “Gazeta Destinacioni”, and into Korean in “Jeju The Pen Literature”.

In 2023, her work was translated in Korean and published in “Jnuri Magazine”.

In 2020, her work was translated into Chinese and published in "Rendition of International Poetry Quarterly" and in “Poetry Hall”.

She has been interviewed eleven times in print, as well as a TV interview, with translations of her interviews in Italian and Albanian, published in Italy, England and Kosovo.

Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver in 1995. Since then, she has published twenty-one other books of poetry and twelve collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling she had a poetry book published, Common Dream, and four chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press December 2012. In 2014 her chapbook Surrogate Dharma was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures Author Series. In 2015, her book No Raft – No Ocean was published by Scars Publications. Also, her book Make the Wind was published in 2016 by Scars Publications. As well, her book Trial and Witness – selected poems, was published in 2016 by Creative Talents Unleashed (CTU Publishing Group). Her book Tadpoles Find the Sun was published in 2020 by Cyberwit. More recently, her book Running, lightwave riding was published by Cyberwit 2023.

Collaborating with Allison Grayhurst on the lyrics, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter/musician Diane Barbarash transformed eight of Allison Grayhurst’s poems into songs, creating a full album. River – Songs from the poetry of Allison Grayhurst was released October 2017.  

Allison Grayhurst’s completed published work to up to and including 2021 is available to read in seven volumes titled The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 and The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 2018 to 2021, published in 2017 and 2021 by Edge Unlimited Publishing. Selected poems from the first six volumes are published in Sight at Zero (selected poems 1988 to 2017), Edge Unlimited Publishing, 2017. 

Allison Grayhurst also sculpts, working with clay and casting into concrete. Her sculpting body of work can be found in the published book The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst, Edge Unlimited Publishing, 2017.

She is an ethical vegan. She lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working with clay; www.allisongrayhurst.com