Spring 2025: Debut chapbook from Baseline Press.
Dagne Forrest’s poetry has appeared in journals in Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. In 2021 she was one of 15 poets featured in The League of Canadian Poets’ annual Poem in Your Pocket campaign. In 2023 she won the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest run by The New Quarterly. Her debut chapbook will be published by Baseline Press in 2025. She also belongs to the editorial and podcast teams of Painted Bride Quarterly.
Selected poetry
“Uncertain, a.k.a. Poem Beginning with a Line by Sylvia Plath”, The Inflectionist Review, 2024 (forthcoming)
“Self Portrait” and “After Frank”, december magazine, 2024 (forthcoming)
“November” (reprint), Deep Wild Journal, Volume 6, 2024 (forthcoming)
“Hypaethral”, Pinhole Poetry, Issue 3.1, April 2024
“Self-Facing Ghazal” and “The Body is Nothing but Stories”, On The Seawall, March/April 2024
“Cento of Unbecoming and Becoming” and “Unbecoming Cento”, Unlost, Issue 32, February 2024
“Sweet”, Literary Mama, January/February 2024 Issue
“Omen”, Right Hand Pointing, Issue 154, January 2024
“Abecedarian with Sharpened Vision”, Fall 2023 Issue 168, The New Quarterly (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“43 Per Cent”, duality, Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, Winter/Spring 2023
“Post Apocalypse Heart”, SWWIM Every Day, 6 March 2023
“Natural Satellite”, The Amphibian Literary Journal, Issue 4 – Nature, February 2023
“The Week in Longing”, Rust & Moth, Spring 2023
“A Little Distance”, November 2022 Winner, Arc Award of Awesomeness, Arc Poetry Magazine
“Nature startles in familiar spaces”, Whale Road Review, Issue 29, December 2022
“Speaking to the Birds”, The Ekphrastic Review, July 2022
“Two Variations on a Poem Ending with a Line by Marvin Bell”, december magazine, Issue 33.1 Spring/Summer 2022
“Mother’s Heart as Incandescent Lightbulb” and “The Art of Distraction”, Please See Me, Issue #10, Women’s Health, April 2022
“Birds Like Bombs”, Whale Road Review, Issue 26, Spring 2022
“Birds in the Very Early Universe”, Prism International, Vol 60.1, Fall 2021
“Black Holes Here on Earth”, Sky Island Journal, Issue 18, Fall 2021
“The Stowaway”, Unlost Journal, Issue 26, August 2021
“At Dusk”, Poem in Your Pocket Day 2021, League of Canadian Poets
Prizes & Shortlists
“Abecedarian with Sharpened Vision”, Winner, 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, The New Quarterly (also nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“Sweet”, honourable mention, Arc Award of Awesomeness – December 2022, Arc Poetry Magazine
“Summer Lightning”, 1st Prize – Poetry Category, 2021 International Literary Prize – Stardust
“Natural Satellite”, Mslexia 2021 Women’s Poetry Competition – Longlist
“What is a bird”, Bridport Prize 2021 – Poetry Shortlist
Creative non-fiction
“Residuum”, Lake Effect, Issue 27, Winter 2023
“Leaving Earth”, Sky Island Journal, Issue 19, Winter 2022
“Suspension”, Paper Dragon, Issue 1, R&R: Recovery & Resilience, Fall 2020
Two days later as I headed down the hill, another large piece of ice came loose from a birch tree and I couldn’t help but internalize that sudden letting go, the ice shifting from a glassy, almost protective coating following every notch and curve of the tree’s trunk and branches to a loose carapace to be shed without hesitation.
Suspension, Published in Paper Dragon (Issue One, Fall 2020, R&R: Recovery & Resililence)
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