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Shadow Blight

Annick MacAskill
4.59/5 (51 ratings)
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Winner of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry (2022)
Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets) (2023)
Shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Award (Atlantic Book Awards) (2023)

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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
64 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Gaspereau Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1554472385
ISBN13:
9781554472383
kindle Asin:
1554472385

Shadow Blight

Annick MacAskill
4.59/5 (51 ratings)
Read Download
Winner of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry (2022)
Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets) (2023)
Shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Award (Atlantic Book Awards) (2023)

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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
64 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Gaspereau Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1554472385
ISBN13:
9781554472383
kindle Asin:
1554472385

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