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Annick MacAskill

Annick MacAskill is Arc Poetry Magazine’s poet-in-residence for 2021–22. Her poetry collections include Murmurations and No Meeting Without Body, which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Award. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she teaches French language and literature at Saint Mary’s University.

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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.” To purchase this title: Add it to your cart
	Other Books by this Author
	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