Douglas Walbourne-Gough

Poet. Newfoundlander. Mixed/adopted Mi'kmaw. Life is hyphenated. Walbourne-Gough's father's family lived in Crow Gulch until the community was legally ushered out, mostly relocating to Corner Brook's first social housing project, Dunfield Park. Walbourne-Gough holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC-Okanagan. His poetry has appeared in Riddle Fence , Canadian Literature , Prairie Fire , Newfoundland Quarterly , QWERTY , Forget Magazine , the Capilano Review , and Contemporary Verse 2 . Crow...See more

Poet. Newfoundlander. Mixed/adopted Mi'kmaw. Life is hyphenated. Walbourne-Gough's father's family lived in Crow Gulch until the community was legally ushered out, mostly relocating to Corner Brook's first social housing project, Dunfield Park. Walbourne-Gough holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC-Okanagan. His poetry has appeared in Riddle Fence , Canadian Literature , Prairie Fire , Newfoundland Quarterly , QWERTY , Forget Magazine , the Capilano Review , and Contemporary Verse 2 . Crow Gulch is his debut collection. It won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award in 2021. See less