Isobel Burke is a Canadian poet born and raised on Vancouver Island. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Bridport Prize for Poetry and her poetry collection “inheritance” won the 2023 Saints & Sinners Literary Festival poetry contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including PRISM International, The Malahat Review, ANMLY, Anti-Heroin Chic, and 13tracks Magazine.
Selected work
meat
DIAGRAM, 2026
winter on mars
Literary Heist Magazine, 2025
heliotrope
Discretionary Love, 2025
museum dust
Poetry Pause, 2025
self portrait as a chronic limp
P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y, 2025
what is gold and what is silver
The Malahat Review, 2025
cat got your tongue?
Agapanthus Collective, 2025
home equity loan
Verse Daily, 2025
heartburn
13tracks, 2025
marie
PRISM international, 2025
home equity loan
ANMLY, 2025
don't swim
Nomadology, 2025
milkweed
Poetic Reveries, 2025
the wolf that cried mother
Penumbra Online, 2024
you finally showed me your bones
Anti-Heroin Chic, 2024
trauma noise
Saints+Sinners, 2023
m(othering)
Saints+Sinners, 2023
poem for things that do not exist
Saints+Sinners, 2023
family tree
Saints+Sinners, 2023