
She wrote her winning book
Shadow Blight to cope with a pregnancy loss.
Annick MacAskill sometimes still struggles to find the words for what she’s lived through. The thrice-published poet and translator takes such a deep pause when I ask her how much her latest book of poems—Shadow Blight, which won the 2022 Governor General Award for poetry on Nov. 16—was lifted from her real life, I almost think the call has cut…