Don Domanski (April 29, 1950 – September 7, 2020) was a Canadian poet.
Biography
Domanski was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived for most of his life. Author of nine collections of poetry, his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In a review of Wolf-Ladder John Bradley described Domanski's poetry as "earthy and astral, dark and buoyant, a cross between Robert Bly, Ted Hughes, and the Brothers Grimm."
In 1999, he received the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry from CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). His 2007 collection All Our Wonder Unavenged was honoured with the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.
- 2007 – Governor General's Award for All Our Wonder Unavenged
- 2008 – The Atlantic Poetry Prize for All Our Wonder Unavenged
- 2008 – Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award for All Our Wonder Unavenged
- 2014 – J.M. Abraham Poetry Award for Bite Down Little Whisper