Michael Goodfellow // poet

Michael Goodfellow is the author of the poetry collection Meadow Work, forthcoming in 2026, and two other books published by Gaspereau Press: Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg County (2024).You can find them here.He lives in an old house on the ocean in Nova Scotia and grows garlic, and is currently working on a fourth collection.His poems have appeared in Canada in The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, CV2, Event, and Grain; in the U.S. in Poetry Midwest, The Cortland Review and Bear Review; and internationally in Poetry Wales, Channel, Crannóg, Reliquiae and Modron.

// 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

// recent & upcoming releasesMeadow Work, Gaspereau Press, 2026, recipient of the inaugural Robert Pope Foundation Residency at Jampolis Cottage, offered by the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotiaa poem in Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Poetry of the Gulf of Maine, Hachette, spring 2027a poem in 14 for the Hare, Press of the Varying Hare, autumn 2026a series of lyric essays in The Lunenburg Barnacletwo issues of bonefolder, a cut&paste zine featuring Canadian and international poetsa poem in Poetry Midwest, autumn 2026two poems in The Malahat Review, spring 2025a poem in Crannóg, spring 2025Cleft, a privately printed chapbook designed by Andrew Steeves, with an original copper plate etching of a snakemouth orchid created for the book by Carrie Phillips Kieser, autumn 2025

// contactreadings, interviews, promotions: contactrights: info [at] gaspereau [dot] cominstagram: @campfirenotes

Michael Goodfellow’s poetry is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, the Robert Pope Foundation, Jampolis Cottage and Access Copyright.