Dawn Macdonald

New issue just dropped! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #canlit #bookreviews

Anstruther Press chapbooks by Bifford, Ge and Wood For everyone who's like, what's a chapbook?

The magic of chapbooks.

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Comma Splice -- Gene Splice -- Pumpkin Splice

October 5 is Do Something Nice Day.
Small acts of kindness can have a big impact.

Of course, our minds go directly to books!
-Read someone a story
-Gift a book
-Say thank you to a bookseller or a librarian

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I have three tiny poems up at the fine online journal "talking about strawberries all of the time". One is based on a dream I had less than two weeks ago so that may be a record for time elapsed from dream to publication.

“Both of Joseph’s 21 Things books belong on the shelves of all Canadians who care about how we live together as peoples within the boundaries of a nation state.” @yukondawn.bsky.social reviews this necessary title for #truthandreconciliationday

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Jenna Butler's Magnetic North Sea voyage to Svalbard

Jenna Butler's prose poetry collection Magnetic North -- I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this one but it turned out to be pretty good!

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This has been by far my most popular post on Bluesky, even though I'm mostly here as a poet

D.S. Stymeist's Cluster Flux Containers and linkages

Containers and linkages in D.S. Stymeist's Cluster Flux:

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good stuff!

Story as Elegy in Zane Koss’s Country Music Read Dawn MacDonald's review of Zane Koss's "Country Music" in Issue 70: Summer 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

@yukondawn.bsky.social reviews Zane Koss's Country Music in Issue 70 of The Ex-Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/story-as-ele...

such a fun book! really a treat to read and review

Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer What is humanity, that we seem to see ourselves across the skies?

Was delighted to have a chance to review Kyle Flemmer's hilarious space-themed experimental poetry book, Supergiants, over at Strange Horizons.

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I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive

#Rstats

Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Telling Stories, Secret Lives The book of the exhibition

Agnes Etherington Art Centre--who even are they? What will they think of next?

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Poetry collection Northerny by Dawn Macdonald (University of Alberta Press) sits amidst black-eyed susans and other flowers

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Bird's Ten" by Dawn Macdonald from the poetry collection Northerny

"8. When two birds sing the same song, they're the same bird."

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Bird's Ten by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social) from Northerny (2024 @UAlbertaPress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2vnr7s47

Unidentified Boat Dawn Macdonald   a goat, a wolf and a cabbage need to cross a river. the cabbage cannot swim, but that’s okay, can roll under water. can breathe beyond atmosphere goatcabbageandwolf these go t…

There's NewPoetry today from Dawn MacDonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social‬). newpoetry.ca/2025/08/29/u...

Dennis Cooley's abecedarium Salutary weirdness

Let’s talk about the pleasures of reading books we don’t understand! Featuring Dennis Cooley's enjoyably nonsensical poetry collection, abecedarium.

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A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs Anthony Waddle’s unconventional approach resulted in a stunningly practical solution to fight a deadly fungal infection.

This luxury treatment is a practical solution to a deadly fungal frog infection

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Lost Signal: Poems by Chris Hutchinson Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

Big thanks to Dawn Macdonald for writing so insightfully about Lost Signal. And thanks to my old friend Jack for spreading the word. I love it when worlds collide.

Ken Babstock's Swivelmount A gestural mark

"It’s a bit presumptuous of me to “review” Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount." ... but I do so anyway

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Excerpt from Dawn Macdonald's poem "Animal Snap," gently printed on the card game it interprets.

Read two of Dawn's poems, "Animal Snap" and "Robert Graves' 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛," in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/da...

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Conor Kerr's Old Gods On and off the road

The Whitehorse Public Library has finally started getting in some newer poetry! Thank you library! So, that means I get to do a review of Conor Kerr’s 2023 collection, Old Gods.

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Just noticed this list is described as coming from "the author of Dawn Macdonald." So yes, it was transmitted in a flash of divine inspiration from the beyond

It was such a treat to curate this fun list!

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."

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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)