Dawn Macdonald

Thanks OKD for revisiting my poem through the lens of genre

Micheline Maylor's Little Wildheart An elegant biology

"The poems in Micheline Maylor’s 2017 University of Alberta Press collection Little Wildheart centre on the body: its erotics, its genetics, its dissolution and its consonance with the animal."

New review at reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/micheline-...

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This looks really cool

And so to simplify:

poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters

Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).

Juiceboxers by Benjamin Hertwig, and By Strength We Are Still Here by Crystal Gail Fraser (different categories, both standout Canadian reads)

ah more things to look forward to around here :/

Really pleased to have work in this gorgeous issue of long con

This Sweet Rupture - Alberta Views The 2006 Lebanon war. The 2007 Lebanon conflict. The October 17th revolution in 2019. The 2020 Beirut explosion. Omar Ramadan has lived...

Omar Ramadan's compelling debut collection This Sweet Rupture reviewed (by me) at Alberta Views:

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really enjoy R Kolewe's work, a fellow physics-trained poet!

Mahaila Smith's Seed Beetle Resistance and regrowth

"This is a twisty ride, at the level of the line and of the narrative arc."

New review of Mahaila Smith's sci-fi poetry collection Seed Beetle:

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10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind. Canadian poetry—not actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers! (Although I have certainly written about beavers.) Canada is a complicated place, living in the shadow of the U.S., …

"The result is fluid, meditative, and singular." Thank you to @yukondawn.bsky.social for including The Absence of Zero by @rkolewe.bsky.social in this great roundup of 10 Canadian poetry titles for @literaryhub.bsky.social.
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10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind. Canadian poetry—not actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers! (Although I have certainly written about beavers.) Canada is a complicated place, living in the shadow of the U.S., …

Got a chance to curate a list of 10 Canadian poetry books for Lithub!

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Breakfast, 3 a.m. by Dawn Macdonald (In the dream) my mother wasn’t angry and she made a sort of breakfast out of photographs. I went out through the window and set my toes to the slope of the roof. The sound of frying felt at any ra…

"In the dream (I) had never known
about shoes. My feet could read and found ways of winding up earth
into sensible chunks, or dollops."

"Breakfast, 3 a.m." by @yukondawn.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝

Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) gets a mention at LitHub! Happy Canada Day! Yukon poet Dawn Macdonald was good enough to mention Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013...

Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) gets a mention at LitHub! / @invisibooks.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social ;
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Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water Contained devastation

New review of Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water:

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Also this is bizarre because Air North is way better at all of those things except having a business class

Shock Absorber — carte blanche magazine Poetry by Dawn Macdonald without stiffening. a bump, a rebound. a dampening

I've got work in carte blanche:

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mostly I consider it a free lottery ticket to mysterious heights of fame and acclaim

Ulysses yes but Finnegan's Wake still on my to-read list awaiting some large amount of unstructured time when I can freely go mad

my submission dated May 17, 2023 is marked In Progress. The fact I've not withdrawn any of those poems for acceptance elsewhere suggests they aren't that great ;)

Fellow Canadian poets, is there a publisher you've especially loved working with? I had a great time with UAlberta Press but it's blind submissions each time so am looking at all submission options for book #2 and feeling my lack of industry knowledge

Jessi MacEachern's Cut Side Down Books about books

"There needs to be a term that’s like “fan fiction” but for poetry." New review of Jessi MacEachern's delightful book about books, Cut Side Down.

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It gets smoky in the Yukon every summer and it's only since it started hitting big cities down South we found out it's bad for you. Who knew? I think we grew up thinking woodsmoke is fine because it's "natural." :D

2025 Canadian First Book Prize Winner - Griffin Poetry Prize The international Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce that Dawn Macdonald, author of Northerny, is the winner of the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize.

It was an unexpected honour to receive this prize. Reading at the event was amazing & also put me way out of my element. Feeling reconfirmed in priorities of getting back to the writing itself, publishing where I can, the next poem, next book, the real stuff.

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Freddie Mason's The Viscous Slime, stickiness, fondling, mixtures

"This writing isn’t completely slimy, slime isn’t ever an answer."

Reviewing Freddie Mason's open access cultural studies text on slime and stickiness:

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Dawn Macdonald, winner of the First Canadian Book Prize, on stage with Anne Michaels. Amazing night at the Griffin Poetry Prize!! Congratulations to everyone nominated, and to the big winners Durs Grünbein and Karen Leeder!
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me please!

thank you, Eleanore -- this truly warms my heart ♡

I remember the train running past Whitehorse when we were little kids, then it shut down. Fascinated with trains when I see them down South. They seem magical and semi-mythological

and then right after that i can look at cirpa presentation proposals! yay!