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, had a poem shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and won first prize in the Hammond House Publishing International Literary Prize (Poetry). Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Paper Dragon and Sky Island Journal.
Poems seen in…
“Battery Acid”, Fresh Voices 24, League of Canadian Poets, November 2021
“Black Holes Here on Earth”, Sky Island Journal, Issue 18, Fall 2021
“Reduction”, One Sentence Poems, October 2021
“The Stowaway”, Unlost Journal, August 2021
“Suspension”, Atelier of Healing: Poetry About Trauma and Recovery (Squircle Line Press), July 2021
“Lost in the Woods III”, Deep Wild Journal, June 2021
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2021, League of Canadian Poets
Three poems in Fenland Poetry Journal (UK), Issue 4, Spring 2021
“Lost in the Woods” (a compressed sestina), The Crank, Issue 2, February 2021
“November”, Sky Island Journal, Issue 15, Winter 2021
“In the Heart of Winter”, The Moving Force Journal, Issue 3, Fall/Winter 2020
“Sonnet”, Not Very Quiet, Issue 6, March 2020
“At Dusk”, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 163, Oct-Dec 2019
“Unbuttered”, K’in Literary Journal, Issue 3, June 2019
Poems to come…
“Birds in the Very Early Universe”, Prism International, Fall 2021
“Birds Like Bombs”, Whale Road Review, Spring 2022
Shortlists & Prizes
“Summer Lightning”, 1st Prize – Poetry Category, 2021 International Literary Prize – Stardust
“What is a bird”, Bridport Prize 2021 – Poetry Shortlist
Creative non-fiction
“Leaving Earth”, Sky Island Journal, Issue 19, Winter 2022
“Suspension”, Paper Dragon, Issue 1, Fall 2020, R&R: Recovery & Resilience
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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