Michael Goodfellow

Michael Goodfellow is the author of the poetry collections NATURALISM, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (2022) and FOLKLORE OF LUNENBURG COUNTY (2024), both published by Gaspereau Press.His poems have appeared in the The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Nova Scotia.His third collection of poems, MEADOW WORK, will be published in 2026. Read more about the collection here→

Arresting and evocative. — Literary HubPoems that almost always return to frost and soil. — Literary Review of CanadaOtherworldly. — Janet Barkhouse, CVCRUnusual beauty. — Elana Wolff, The New QuarterlyA precise lyric of landscape and dream. — Rob McLennanLiminal, sensual, macabre. — Jade Wallace, CarouselDarkly mesmerizing. — Robert Nazarene, The American Journal of PoetryAn assured and coherent debut. — The Malahat Review

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Michael Goodfellow’s poems have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Robert Pope Foundation, Jampolis Cottage, the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, the Public Lending Right program and Access Copyright.