On today’s show, we talk to Donna Kane.
Donna Kane is a writer who divides her time between Rolla, BC on Treaty 8 Territory and Halifax, NS in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq people. Her poems, short fiction, reviews, and essays have been published widely in journals such as Science Today, Scientific American, The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review, as well as in several anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry 2013 (Tightrope Books, 2013), I Found it at the Movies: An Anthology of Film Poems (Guernica Press 2014), In This Together: Fifteen True Stories of Real Reconciliation (Brindle and Glass, 2016), Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press, 2020) and, most recently, Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
She has published four books of poetry, Somewhere, a Fire, (Hagios Press, 2004), and Erratic (Hagios Press, 2007), both finalists for the ReLit Award, Orrery (Harbour, 2020), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, and Asterisms (Harbour, 2024). She is also the recipient of the Lina Chartrand Poetry Award (2000) and in 2010 she was a winner in Geist’s Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest. Her poetry has been featured on CBC’s Daybreak North and North by Northwest, and in 2011, her poem, Summer Solstice, was featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. “The Gaze,” one of the chapters from Summer of the Horse (Harbour Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and published in the 2016 summer issue of The New Quarterly. An excerpt from Orrery, was published as a chapbook titled Pioneer 10, I Hear You by JackPine Press in October, 2016.
Find Donna at the links below.
Website: https://www.donnakane.com/
Instagram: @ donnakaneishere
You can find Donna’s book Asterisms, here: https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9781990776717?srsltid=AfmBOopdldaLTIrAVTvho51fJXuCh5KMVJHYfdUhNKkORjvW14-_fxDT
If you're interested in creative writing, the University of King's College MFA in Creative Writing might be for you. Find out more at: https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/
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