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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Votive
Annick MacAskill

2024 / Canadian Poetry / $22.95
9781554472680 / Trade paper / 64 pp


Votive considers various forms of devotion and our often fraught attempts to respond to “our confusion, our curiosity.” These are poems concerned with the way we use stories, old and new, to connect our experiences, and the way we persist in our quest for love, hope and meaning when language falters —“What we couldn’t say we found in the skies.” MacAskill’s great gift resides in her facility for coaxing things evasive and intuitive into crisp form and language, in voicing what “so quickly I /knew and knew and knew.”



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Other Books by this Author

Shadow Blight
Annick MacAskill

2022 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781554472383 / 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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