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Poet Laureate Donna Allard poems have appeared for the past thirty years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world. She is the founder and organizer of Sojourner Literary Festival: Poetry & Music festival. Her last book, From Shore to Shoormal, was published by Brokenjaw Press (Maritime Arts Project, New Brunswick, Canada) in 2013, and Selected & New Poems TBA 2019 from SkyWing Press (Ontario, Canada). Her love of nature is endless.

*National Beat Poet Laureate Foundation Inc


 * Donna Allard, A.K.A Acadianrose & Cloud-walker

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Award winning Donna Allard was raised in the fishing village of Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada, which must surely lend to her hardy spirit and well seasoned pen. Known to be able to ‘swear like a sailor,’ and ‘trot upon the earth shoeless,’ Allard’s soulful eye captures the impact of light on the lens of a camera just as masterfully as she paints with words, often leaving one to feel like they should – “kiss a cod, grab a beer, have sex, and follow up with a cigarette” as stated in a review by Ronda Wicks Eller (Publisher, Canadian Poet, Author, Freelance Artist and Caricaturist.)

Published Works:

2013 Broken Jaw Press, From Shore to Shoormal, ISBN 978-1-55391-111-1 2006 River Bones Press, Bellwalker: Devolution, ISBN 0973867159, 9780973867152 2006 River Bones Press, Hand Upon the Dunes, ISBN 0973867140 2006 River Bones Press, Minago Streets, ISBN 0973867132

2014 Poem 'dirt road' published in The Long Islander, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838.

Reviews:

Kites Without Strings : A literary journey with Debbie Okun Hill on 'War Musket Grasses' Canadian Poetry Review by Poet Laureate Candice James Canadian Poetry Association magazine POEMATA : 1st Place 'War Musket Grasses'

Note* Donna Allard's books of poetry are in University libraries:

Canada: UNB, Simon Fraser, Dalhousie, Univ Manitoba, etc. USA: Harvard, Brown, Princeton and other universities in the USA UK: University of Cambridge UK.

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