Michael
Goodfellow // poet
Michael Goodfellow is the author of the poetry collection Meadow Work, forthcoming in 2026, and two other collections published by Gaspereau Press: Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg County (2024).You can find them here.His poems have appeared in Canada in The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, CV2, Event, and Grain and internationally in Poetry Wales, Channel, Crannóg, Reliquiae and Modron.He lives in Nova Scotia.
// praise
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 ReviewPoems hewn like a sculptor would carve from stone or wood — ARC Poetry Magazine
// books
Ghost stories become a lens on human relationships; supernatural experiences become analogs for loss, longing, and disappearance, and for the way in which these experiences are mediated by landscape, nature, and community ritual — from the publisher
Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography
Goodfellow’s spare style and sensitivity to the way people, objects, and places fuse together through time give these poems the surefootedness of a thing rooted in the earth — from the publisher
// contact