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A journal of sorts documenting father-daughter love
"I like the range of styles and of course the content in which you capture father-daughter love, and east coast landscape beautifully."
John B. Lee Poet Laureate
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walk on water
"Donna walks that difficult line between thematic breadth, impeccable prosody, a convergence of music and image, and excavating the suffering and joy at the core of every human life. In other words, Donna is a master. And not only is she a master of her art and her craft, but she is also unremitting supportive of other poets and makes her positive mark on many many creative lives. She’s not just a national treasure for Canada. She’s an international treasure for all of us."~
Chansonette Buck Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley
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COLD FIRE
A beautiful 62 page paperback collection of free verse "peoples' poetry"
BRONZE AWARD 2020
"Cold Fire, the aptly chosen title of this selection of poetry, speaks to the broad range of human emotions. The full polarity of life’s ups and downs are addressed head-on, courageously. Poetically, Allard’s words portray, sing and dance her passion for life, her relationships with those near, those off in distant lands, and those who have passed. Her life’s tapestry almost always incorporates a number of nature’s creatures, its rhythmic cycles, all unfolding within the haunting presence of place. Place is important to Allard; it is where we send down roots and hers are deeply coastal, enough so as to breathe the salty air through her verse. Place in Allard’s world sets the scene for the unfolding of all the busyness of life and living."
Maggie McLaughlin Author, A Healing Gift, Cognitive Energy Healing
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Three Times Around the World
This book is inspired by years of living in a small rum-runner village, situated on the ocean's coastline where foggy summer night ghosts tarry by the boardwalk. They whisper about days of old and long-lost sailors who set out to sea. “Three times around the world”, they say, with a deep-rooted smell of tobacco as the salty air fades into the night heralding,
“Around the world one more time!”
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Ghost in the Window
Excerpt:
...She was a very strong woman with a dry wit, clever as a fox, loving and kind and a great cook.
It was difficult to see her in her favourite chair– she used to tower over it at 5’ 10” but now she sat like a child awaiting an abusive Father.
That is what cancer is….
"An awesome gift to give yourself or a special someone who IS struggling with personal ghosts, & the reality of how cancer can affect family and friends. For all of you facing your ghosts head-on - God bless you and I pray you to overcome them as I have." ~ Donna Allard
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From Shore to Shoormal is a journey between Acadia’s Shediac Bay and Shetland’s Ninian Sands—a celebration of the poets’ shared
North Atlantic.
Whilst Donna Allard writes on the coastal fringe in New Brunswick, Canada, Nat Hall walks and writes by her shoormal, somewhere on the 60th parallel in her windswept Shetland Islands, Scotland’s most northerly archipelago. “Shore”, as described by J. L. Leprohon in her “Sea Shore Musings” poem, is the Creator’s power—in her own Canadian home, “Mysterious, moaning main,/ in dreams, I’ll see thy snow-white foam”. It’s described by Chile’s bard Pablo Neruda in “No me hagan caso / Forget about Me”, as a place where the sea washes, throws up crab claws and skulls of many kinds …
“Shoormal”, as defined by Robert Alan Jamieson in his Shoormal, A Sequence of Movements (Polygon, 1986): “In Shetland, da shoormal is the shallows on a beach; the space between the tides where the moon weighs the density of the ocean …” that area where sand shifts.
Two voices celebrate their Atlantic connection.
Co-authored with Shetland Island poet Nat Hall
From Shore to Shoormal / D’un rivage à l’autre
Poems in English, French, & Shetland dialect /
Poèmes en mirroirs—anglais–français–dialecte shetlandais
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Ghost in the Window
Excerpt:
...She was a very strong woman with a dry wit, clever as a fox, loving and kind and a great cook.
It was difficult to see her in her favourite chair– she used to tower over it at 5’ 10” but now she sat like a child awaiting an abusive Father.
That is what cancer is….
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"An awesome gift to give yourself or a special someone who IS struggling with personal ghosts, & the reality of how cancer can affect family and friends. For all of you facing your ghosts head on - God bless you and I pray you overcome them as I have.
love,
Donna Allard
Two voices celebrate their
Atlantic connection.
Co-authored with Shetland Island poet Nat Hall
From Shore to Shoormal / D’un rivage à l’autre
Poems in English, French, & Shetland dialect /
Poèmes en mirroirs—anglais–français–dialecte shetlandais
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From Shore to Shoormal is a journey between Acadia’s Shediac Bay and Shetland’s Ninian Sands—a celebration of the poets’ shared
North Atlantic.
Whilst Donna Allard writes on the coastal fringe in New Brunswick, Canada, Nat Hall walks and writes by her shoormal, somewhere on the 60th parallel in her windswept Shetland Islands, Scotland’s most northerly archipelago. “Shore”, as described by J. L. Leprohon in her “Sea Shore Musings” poem, is the Creator’s power—in her own Canadian home, “Mysterious, moaning main,/ in dreams, I’ll see thy snow-white foam”. It’s described by Chile’s bard Pablo Neruda in “No me hagan caso / Forget about Me”, as a place where the sea washes, throws up crab claws and skulls of many kinds …
“Shoormal”, as defined by Robert Alan Jamieson in his Shoormal, A Sequence of Movements (Polygon, 1986): “In Shetland, da shoormal is the shallows on a beach; the space between the tides where the moon weighs the density of the ocean …” that area where sand shifts.
