Eleonore Schonmaier Author

Rush of Wingspan: Arrivals Rush of Wingspan has arrived. Joy! We created an unpacking video for you.

Rush of Wingspan has arrived. Joy! The book looks gorgeous. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social #poetry

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Rush of Wingspan: news I’m grateful for the beauty of nature, and grateful to have endorsements for Rush of Wingspan (MQUP, March 2026) from J. Mae Barizo, Kevin Irie, Stephanie Bolster, Brian Bartlett and Julie Sedivy.…

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Proof Pages Rush of Wingspan feels truly real now. I love viewing the proof pages, and I enjoy working on the final details so that the book can be as perfect as it can be (while realizing one can never actual…

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The Thing You’ve Been Saying Your Whole Life | Los Angeles Review of Books Julie Sedivy reviews Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”

I got to review @michaelerard.bsky.social's new book for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, a book that grapples with the things most worth thinking about: language, human connection, mortality.
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Urban Matters: Poetry in the City Join authors Daniela Elza and Daniel Cowper for a launch, reading, and discussion on celebration of the life of a city and an interrogation of its cost on our well-being. This event will be moderated…

On Tuesday, join poets Daniela Elza and Daniel Cowper for the joint launch of their collections SCAR/CITY and Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse in Vancouver!

Rush of Wingspan Rush of Wingspan (MQUP) will be published in March 2026. “Outwards from a northern wilderness childhood these poems thrum musically with intuitive environmentalism in urban, coastal, and bore…

Cover for Rush of Wingspan forthcoming March 2026

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Viewpoint Gallery Opening I’m an alumni of Viewpoint Gallery and my image “Wild Horses” will be on display in September. I took the photograph in the dune landscape nature reserve in the Netherlands earlie…

Photography at Viewpoint Gallery including my “Wild Horses.” Opening today.

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Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] During the weekend of June 7th I was in Greece. In the midst of a heatwave I attended rehearsals and watched the premiere of Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festiva…

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I love your book and am so grateful to have read it! It’s like a book I’ve waited my whole life to read. Brilliant writing and a realistic depiction of the north. Thank you!

Book Contract My forthcoming poetry collection Rush of Wingspan will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in early 2026. I’ve just signed the contract. Plus more info about music-theatre a…

New book forthcoming, plus music-theatre and song premieres. Also photos and photo exhibit. #Poetry #newmusic #photography #composer #flower #nature #song #trees #DorothyChang #MichalisParaskakis eleonoreschonmaier.com/2025/05/29/b...

Writing Tip When I was short-listed for the CBC poetry prize, CBC Books asked me to create a writing tip and they’ve now published my thoughts.

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Athens: Music Theater Premiere Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] is a multimedia music theatre piece by composer Michalis Paraskakis in collaboration with poet Eleonore Schönmaier. The premiere will be on Saturday June 7, 2025 at Su...

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Vancouver: Song Premiere A song composed by Dorothy Chang and based on my poem “Knot” will premiere at the Early Music Vancouver festival in July. The event combines baroque and Chinese musical instruments.

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Eleonore Schönmaier's Writing Space - The New Quarterly Eleonore Schönmaier shares the simplicity of her writing space, where the most complicated process of writing occurs. Read now!

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Migrations in Cologne “Migrations” was featured in Ebertplatz on a public video-art channel (Fries-TV) in the city of Cologne, Germany. The many meters long screen scrolls over an outdoor public square. &#82…

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