On today’s show, we speak to Annick MacAskill.
Annick MacAskill is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020) and No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), which was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (Atlantic Book Awards). Her third collection Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), a book that explores miscarriage, disenfranchised grief, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Poetry, and was also shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the J.M. Abraham Award (Atlantic Book Awards). MacAskill’s fourth book of poetry, Votive, was published in the fall of 2024 by Gaspereau Press.
MacAskill recently served as Poet-in-Residence with Arc Poetry Magazine and has taught creative writing through the League of Canadian Poets’ P.K. Page Mentorship Programme, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Programme, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others.
MacAskill holds a PhD in French literature from Western University and has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, L’Année ronsardienne, Le Verger, and Renaissance et Réforme / Renaissance and Reformation. She currently teaches French language, literature, and translation as a contract faculty member in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Saint Mary’s University.
A settler of French and Scottish ancestry, she lives and writes in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.
Find Annick at the links below.
Website: https://annickmacaskill.com/
Instagram: @annickmaca
You can find Annick’s book Votive, here: http://www.gaspereau.com/
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