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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Shadow Blight
Annick MacAskill

2022 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95
9781554472383 / Trade paper / 64 pp


Shadow Blight considers the pain and isolation of pregnancy loss through the lens of classical myth. Drawing on the stories of Niobe—whose monumental suffering at the loss of her children literally turned her to stone—and others, this collection explores the experience of being swept away by grief and silenced by the world. Skirting the tropes (“o how beautiful / the poets make our catastrophes”), MacAskill interweaves the ancient with the contemporary in a way that opens possibilities and offers a new language for those “shut up in stillness.”



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Other Books by this Author

Votive
Annick MacAskill

2024 / Canadian Poetry / $22.95 CAN
9781554472680 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Murmurations
Annick MacAskill

2020 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554472086 / Trade paper / 96 pp
No Meeting Without Body
Annick MacAskill

2018 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471836 / Trade paper / 80 pp

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