Our third celebration of Poetry Month features poet Kathryn MacDonald. Kathryn has published in Room, FreeFall and other Canadian literary journals and anthologies, as well as internationally in the U.K., U.S. and even Indonesia. Her poem, “Duty / Deon” won the Arc Award of Awesomeness (January 2021). “Seduction” was entered in the Freefall Annual Poetry Contest and published in Freefall (Fall 2020). Kathryn is the author of Far Side of the Shadow Moon: Enchantments (poetry chapbook), A Breeze You Whisper: Poems and Calla & Édouard (fiction), as well as a book of essays and recipes, The Farm & City Cookbook with its philosophy of “eat natural, eat local.” Kathryn lives in Belleville on the north shore of Lake Ontario where the Moira River flows into the Bay of Quinte. Kathryn taught literature as well as creative and nonfiction writing in Ontario’s college system in addition to facilitating writing workshops and coaching sessions. For pleasure she pursues photography and sketching.
[…] Kathryn talks about writing and about her new chapbook, Far Side of the Shadow Moon, with Felicity Reid and Gwynn Sheltema-Anderson on “Word on the Hills” radio program, a featured writer during National Poetry Month. To listen to the interview click here. […]
Kathryn MacDonald’s poems apply broadly to all of us who have endured sorrow, who relate profoundly to nature, who love deeply. Her poems lift our spirits with their beauty; the exact truth of her phrases speaks to us.
Thank you very much for the kind comments to the interview.