Lesley-Anne Evans is an Irish-Canadian poet living in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she writes and hosts Feeny Wood, a woodland retreat. In 2025, Lesley-Anne received an MA in Poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, fulfilling a dream to return to her birth city of Belfast.
Lesley-Anne’s work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit Mag., The Honest Ulsterman, The Waxed Lemon, EVENT Magazine, Image Journal, The Antigonish Review, and Contemporary Verse 2, among other literary publications.
Lesley-Anne’s first collection, Mute Swan, Poems for Maria Queen of the World, was published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series in 2021, and launched in Kelowna and Toronto. Learn more here.
Filmed at Feeny Wood, B.C. by Olivia Seneshen, the video below includes readings from the collection.
Lesley-Anne Evans 