Mary Dalton

Mary Dalton was born in the parish of Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador. She edited Newfoundland Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 1987 and was editor and co-publisher of TickleAce. A literary journal of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1980 to 1986. Dalton founded the SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009 and served also as the festival's director for the first six years. SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a "word spree". She is professor emerita in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's and Poet Laureate of the City of St. John's. Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.

• The Time of Icicles (Breakwater Books, 1989, 1991). • Allowing the Light (Breakwater Books, 1993). • Merrybegot (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2003; audiobook version by Rattling Books, 2005) • Red Ledger (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2006). • Between You and the Weather (Running the Goat, 2008). Wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates. • Hooking: A Book of Centos (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2013). • Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017). Chapbook, with wood engravings by Abigail Rorer. • Interrobang (Véhicule Press, 2024)

• Edge: Essays, Reviews, Interviews (Palimpsest Press, 2015). • The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater Books, 2022). Text of the 2020 Pratt Lecture, delivered on March 4, 2020.

• Choice Atlantic: Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes (Breakwater Books, 1990). • Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing, 1999). • New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry and Whiteside 2000); the edges of time (Seraphim Editions, 1999). • Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry (The Acorn Press, 2001). • Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology of Poems in English, edited by Evan Jones and Todd Swift (Carcanet Press, 2010). • The Art of the Sonnet, edited by Stephen Burt and David Mikics, Harvard University Press (The Belknap Press, 2010). • The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013, edited by Sue Goyette (Tightrope Books, 2013). • The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry, edited by Mark Callanan and James Langer (2013). • 70 Canadian Poets, edited by Gary Geddes (Oxford University Press, 2014). • Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry, edited by Amanda Jernigan and Evan Jones (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2015). • The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English, edited by Anita Lahey and Molly Peacock (Tightrope Books, 2017).