MEADOW WORK

available from Gaspereau Press, spring 2026

The poems in Meadow Work take place in a disappeared half-lit world on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and speak of handcraft and other things done by hand.Poems from the collection have appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Crannóg, Prairie Fire, Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere.Michael Goodfellow is the author of two previous collections from Gaspereau Press, and the privately published chapbook Cleft. Learn more about him here→

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Praise for his previous collections:Arresting 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

The development of the collection was supported by the Robert Pope Foundation, Jampolis Cottage, and the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia.

Photo copyright Natalie Rice. The image was shot on Ilford XP2 Super 400 and depicts the meadow behind Oxner’s Beach, Lunenburg County, which was once used for grazing sheep and gathering rockweed and in which you can still see the faint traces of old farm roads to and from the nearby lagoon.