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.
Arresting and evocative — Literary HubPoems hewn like a sculptor would carve from stone or wood — ARC Poetry MagazineGhost 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
Poems 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 ReviewGoodfellow’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
// poems
Named Storms, Channel Magazine, Autumn 2024
Directions for Coastal Travel, CV2, Summer 2024
Windthrow, Poetry Wales, Winter 2024
Thaw Marks, EVENT Magazine, Winter 2025
Vernacular, The Malahat Review, Spring 2025
Photosynthesis, from Naturalism: An Annotated Bibliography
Glazing, EVENT Magazine, Winter 2025
Midwinter, Parentheses Magazine, Winter 2022
// news
a poem in Fourteen for the Hare, Press of the Varying Hare, fall 2026 with an engraving by George WalkerMeadow Work, a trade collection of poems with an engraving by Wesley Bates, Gaspereau Press, fall 2026a poem in Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Literature from the Gulf of Maine, Hachette, spring 2027Cleft, a privately printed chapbook designed by Andrew Steeves with an original copperplate etching by Carrie Phillips Kieser, fall 2025bonefolder, a cut&paste zine with poems by Canadian and international poets, spring 2025poems from Meadow Work in The Malahat Review, CV2, Poetry Wales, Crannog & Channel, 2025
// contact
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Michael Goodfellow’s writing 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.