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.Upcoming Releases/// His third collection of poems, MEADOW WORK, will be published in spring, 2026. Read more about the collection here→/// The chapbook Cleft will be published in the fall of 2025, designed by Andrew Steeves with a copperplate etching by Carrie Phillips Kieser created for the book. Read more about the collection or order it here→/// The poem “Sand Barrens Cyanotype” will appear in a letterpress edition published by the Press of the Varying Hare (fall, 2026)./// The poem “Snakemouth Orchid” will appear in the anthology Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Poetry of the Gulf of Maine (Hachette, spring 2027)./// “Local Real Estate,” a series of lyric essays about landscape and hallucination, appears irregularly in the Lunenburg Barnacle→/// Issue no. 2 of bonefolder, a cut&paste zine featuring Canadian and international poets, was released spring 2025.New Poems/// The title poem “Meadow Work” will appear in the fall, 2025 issue of Crannóg Magazine./// Poems from Meadow Work also appeared in the spring 2025 issues of Prairie Fire, EVENT and The Malahat Review and the winter 2025 issues of Poetry Wales and Channel.
Praise for his previous collectionsArresting 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 ReviewPoems hewn like a sculptor would carve from stone or wood. — ARC Poetry Magazine
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.