Dan MacIsaac writes from Metchosin, BC. Recently, his work appeared in Event , FreeFall , Stand , and Canadian Literature . Brick Books published his poetry collection, Cries from the Ark; and in 2022 Alfred Gustav published his chapbook, Jazz Sessions . His poetry has received awards including the Foley Prize from America Magazine . His work was short-listed for the Walrus Poetry Prize, The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, and the CBC Short Story Prize.
A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention
Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back on geologic and biological timelines as to seem more past than past. Against this catastrophic backdrop (at the end of consolations, at the high-water mark), and equipped with a periscopic eye and a sublime metaphorical reach, poet Dan MacIsaac has crowded his debut vessel with sloths and auks, mummified remains and bumbling explorers, German expressionists and Neolithic cave-p