Eleonore Schönmaier

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Author of Rush of Wingspan (forthcoming 2026), Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (2021), Dust Blown Side of the Journey (2017), and Wavelengths of Your Song (2013) all from McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Official Release Date

It’s the official release date for Rush of Wingspan. You’ll enter alternative worlds with lots of seaside imagery, and of course some owls

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Rush of Wingspan: Arrivals

Rush of Wingspan has arrived. Joy! We created an unpacking video for you.

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Proof pages for Rush of Wingspan (McGill-Queen's University Press, March 2026).

#poetry #nature #music #lovepoems

https://eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/09/26/proof-pages/

Rush of Wingspan: Proof Pages

Rush of Wingspan feels truly real now. I love viewing the proof pages, and I enjoy working on the final details so that the book can be as perfect as it can be (while realizing one can never actual…

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Rush of Wingspan (McGill-Queen's University Press) is forthcoming in March 2026. Today is the cover reveal.

https://eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/06/26/cover-reveal/

#poetry #nature #music #piano #environmentalism #lovepoems #canadianliterature #wildlife

Rush of Wingspan

Rush of Wingspan (MQUP) will be published in March 2026. “Outwards from a northern wilderness childhood these poems thrum musically with intuitive environmentalism in urban, coastal, and bore…

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I had a wonderful time in Greece for the Athens Epidaurus Festival premiere of the music-theater Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] based on my text. #poetry #newmusic #MichalisParaskakis #composer #poet

https://eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/06/19/field-guide-to-the-lost-flower/

some reviews + interviews re: On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/some-reviews-interviews-re-on-beauty.html
some reviews + interviews re: On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024)

I've been feeling very fortunate for the amount of reviews/interviews around my collection of short stories, On Beauty: stories (University...

I've just signed a book contract. Plus more news about the music-theater, and song premieres. And photos. #poetry #photography #newmusic #composer #nature #birds #flowers #DorothyChang #MichalisParaskakis #Athens #Vancouver #Halifax

https://eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/05/29/book-contract/

Composer Dorothy Change has written a poem based on my poem "Knot" (from Wavelengths of Your Song). The premiere will be in Vancouver in July.
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/05/24/vancouver-song-premiere/

#song #poetry #newmusic #composer #trees #nature #heart

Vancouver: Song Premiere

A song composed by Dorothy Chang and based on my poem “Knot” will premiere at the Early Music Vancouver festival in July. The event combines baroque and Chinese musical instruments.

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Athens: Music Theater Premiere

Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] is a multimedia music theatre piece by composer Michalis Paraskakis in collaboration with poet Eleonore Schönmaier. The premiere will be on Saturday June 7, 2025 at Subset Festival / Athens Epidaurus Festival.

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Migrations in Cologne

“Migrations” was featured in Ebertplatz on a public video-art channel (Fries-TV) in the city of Cologne, Germany. The many meters long screen scrolls over an outdoor public square. &#82…

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