#Poet and #translator.
Latest collection, Shadow Blight, out now with Gaspereau Press. #GGBooks2022
Based in Kjipuktuk, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq. she/elle
annickmacaskill.com
"a flicker
between melt and summer, hibernation
and the grand folly of generation,
a trust kindled by some other fire."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Votive by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) from Votive (2024 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/yc72ukj3
"She herself made not a time; she fell almost
as a word through time."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Gospel by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) from No Meeting Without Body (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe
"you'd aligned yourself with a single point
and were flying towards it just as you tunnelled
through me before and my body remembered
the force of that will, had been its vehicle."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Going There by Margo Wheaton (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2cphaasy
28/31: NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe
"God bless it all, the whir, a sound like
promises and winter,
through Sherbourne and Castle Frank;
rarely are you this far east.
End of the day and you still love him,
him and his *fucking blue eyes.*"
Ode on the Afternoon
#TheSealeyChallenge #SealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #todayspoem #poetry @poetry
16/31: PILLOW TALK by Rebecca Salazar (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2hb7s52m
"we caught fire
in all the wrong ways. how does a phoenix
miscarry her own rebirth. no flaming
sex, no little death, only burnt earth."
#TheSealeyChallenge #SealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #todayspoem #poetry @poetry
"and we were adamant
that none should be left out: Alfonso,
Marcus, Gasper, Bernardino,
Ann and Fran, Jeronimo, and -
History does not record
the name of the Albanian,
the boatman from Battista, or -"
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Strange Brotherhood by Luke Hathaway (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/5fv6xark
"Each morning makes promises that can't be kept,
instead hands over the same length of being you been
spliced in from the jump."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
All This Is by Chris Bailey (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/4f3b7fwr
Vicki Ziegler
