Michael Goodfellow is the author of MEADOW WORK, forthcoming spring 2026, and two other poetry collections published by Gaspereau Press. Read more about the collection here→His poems have appeared in the The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Nova Scotia.
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
Upcoming releasesMeadow Work, a trade collection of poems to be published by Gaspereau Press, 2026a poem in 14 for the Hare, an upcoming fine letterpress edition published by Press of the Varying Hare, autumn 2026a poem in Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology and Literature from the Gulf of Maine, Hachette, spring 2027Recent releasesCleft, a privately published chapbook designed by Andrew Steeves, autumn 2025Local Real Estate, a series of lyric essays in the Lunenburg Barnacletwo poems from Meadow Work in a 2025 issue of The Malahat Reviewa poem from Meadow Work in a 2025 issue of Crannóg