Don Domanski
Born(1950-04-29)April 29, 1950
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedSeptember 7, 2020(2020-09-07) (aged 70)
NationalityCanadian
OccupationPoet
SpouseMary Meidell

Don Domanski (April 29, 1950 – September 7, 2020) was a Canadian poet.

Biography

Domanski was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived for most of his life. Author of nine collections of poetry, his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.[1] In a review of Wolf-Ladder John Bradley described Domanski's poetry as "earthy and astral, dark and buoyant, a cross between Robert Bly, Ted Hughes, and the Brothers Grimm."[2]

In 1999 he received the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry from CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). His 2007 collection All Our Wonder Unavenged was honoured with the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.[3][4][5] In 2014 he won the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award for Bite Down Little Whisper.[5] Domanski mentored other poets through the Banff Centre for the Arts Wired Writing Studio and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Mentorship program.

Also a visual artist, he created art that appeared in galleries in Halifax and Seoul, South Korea, and on covers of his poetry collections. Domanski also collected fossils for over a decade, and subsequently turned his attention to meteorites and Stone Age tools. He found a neural arch of a 350-million-year-old (Lower Carboniferous) amphibian previously thought to have gone extinct in the Devonian period. He was given credit for the find in Amphibian Biology, Vol. 4, Palaeontology, The Evolutionary History of Amphibians, ed. Harold Heatwole and Robert L. Carroll. His interest in religions inspired visits to churches and cathedrals in France, Ireland, England and Argentina, mosques in Istanbul, Rumi's tomb in Konya, and Buddhist temples and monasteries in China.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • 1975: The Cape Breton Book of the Dead (House of Anansi Press)
  • 1978: Heaven (House of Anansi Press)
  • 1982: War in an Empty House (House of Anansi Press)
  • 1986: Hammerstroke (House of Anansi Press)
  • 1991: Wolf-Ladder (Coach House Press) (shortlisted for a Governor General's Award)
  • 1994: Stations of the Left Hand (Coach House Press) (shortlisted for a Governor General's Award)
  • 1998: Parish of the Physic Moon (McClelland & Stewart)
  • 2007: All Our Wonder Unavenged (Brick Books) (winner of the Governor General's Award, The Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award)
  • 2013: Bite Down Little Whisper (Brick Books) (shortlisted for a Governor General's Award; winner of J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize)
  • 2021: Fetishes of the Floating World (Brick Books)

Pamphlets

  • 2006: All Our Wonder Unavenged (Jack Pine Press)
  • 2006: Poetry and the Sacred (Ralph Gustafson Lecture, Institute for Coastal Research)
  • 2014: Field Notes (Corbel Stone Press)
  • 2015: Fetishes of the Floating World (espresso)

Anthologies

  • 2007: Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
  • 2021: Selected Poems, 1975-2021 (Hardcover) (Corbel Stone Press)
  • 2022: Selected Poems, 1975-2021 (Softcover) (Xylem Books)

Honours

Notes

  1. ↑ "New Books" web page Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at Brick Books website. Retrieved April 23, 2007
  2. ↑ "Don Domanski | The Canadian Encyclopedia". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ "All Our Wonder Unavenged earns Don Domanski the GG ". EastWord, January/February 2008. Writers Fderation of Nova Scotia.
  4. 1 2 "All Our Wonder Unavenged - Don Domanski". Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "J. M. Abraham Poetry Award", Wikipedia, April 20, 2020, retrieved October 9, 2020
  6. ↑ "Past CBC Literary Prize winners | CBC Books". CBC. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ "2007 Governor General's Awards", Wikipedia, August 30, 2018, retrieved October 9, 2020

Further reading

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