Annick MacAskill (CA)
Shadow Blight
Shadow Blight
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Shadow Blight considers the pain and isolation of pregnancy loss through the lens of classical myth. Drawing on the stories of Niobewhose monumental suffering at the loss of her children literally turned her to stoneand 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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ISBN
978155447238
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Publisher
Gaspereau
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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 chapbooksBrotherly 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.
