Write to Ines

Poet and sound artist

Poems for the hourwhen the lightreaches the water.

Poetry and sound pieces from the Salish Sea: three collections, live readings, and poems written to order.

Write to Ines

Books and readings

  • The Listening Shelf

    Poems (2025). Forty poems written at the edge of the water, between the tides.

  • Slack Tide

    Poems (2021). The still minutes when the tide turns, and what people say in them.

  • Brine Hours

    Poems (2017). Her first collection.

  • Live readings with sound

    A reading set with recorded water and wind, for festivals, libraries and schools.

    hello@inesvardell.example, Live readings with sound

About

Ines Vardell is a poet and sound artist in Port Townsend, Washington. Her collections Brine Hours, Slack Tide and The Listening Shelf came out in 2017, 2021 and 2025.

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