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Don Domanski (1950-2020)

Don Domanski was an acclaimed Canadian poet who published nine books of poetry during his lifetime. He received the Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. He also served as the 2005 Ralph Gustafson Chair of Poetry at Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University).

The Cape Breton Book of the Dead (1975)
Heaven (1978)
War in an Empty House (1982)
Hammerstroke (1986)
Wolf-Ladder (1991)
Stations of the Left Hand (1994)
Parish of the Physic Moon (1998)
All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
Bite Down Little Whisper (2013)

His Selected Poems was published in April 2021, and a final posthumous collection, Fetishes of the Floating World, was published in October 2021.

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