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Annick MacAskill

Annick MacAskill was the winner of a 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for her poetry collection Shadow Blight. Her previous collections include Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, and two chapbooks—Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos and five from hem. MacAskill is a member of Room Magazine’s Growing Room Collective and publisher of micropress Opaat Press. She lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS.

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[ Large Image ]	Murmurations Annick MacAskill 2020 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 9781554472086 / Trade paper / 96 pp Murmurations is a collection of love poems that explores how intimacy tests the capacity of language—how music is also noise and the prospect for miscommunication abounds. Populating her poems with birdsong and murmurings of the natural world, MacAskill highlights how poets and lovers share much with birders on the twitch, how even keen observation and intense passion can fail us as we pursue our beloved across distances and through time. Yet when we do finally find love it often seems, like a rare bird, “at once / singular and improbable / because of how clearly it appeared to us.” Note: stock is low on this item... go ahead and purchase and we will let you know if it is available. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart
	Other Books by this Author
	Votive Annick MacAskill 2024 / Canadian Poetry / $22.95 CAN 9781554472680 / Trade paper / 64 pp
	Shadow Blight Annick MacAskill 2022 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554472383 / Trade paper / 64 pp
	No Meeting Without Body Annick MacAskill 2018 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471836 / Trade paper / 80 pp