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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 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.”
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About the Author
Annick MacAskill is the author of four books of poetry, including Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), winner of the Governor General’s Award and shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, and Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024), which was shortlisted for the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award and the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. Her chapbooks include five from hem (Gap Riot Press, 2024), a finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, and Verfondre/Wormmelt (Baseline Press, 2026). MacAskill’s poems have appeared in journals across Canada and abroad and in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology series. MacAskill is a member of Room Magazine’s Growing Room Collective and the founder and publisher of Opaat Press. She lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.
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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 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.”
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