Michael G. Donkin is a poet and critic.

His collection Dreaming at Noon was published in the fall of 2023, and is available.

He holds a PhD in English, and defended his dissertation, Poetry Finding Itself: the Dialectic of Logos and Mythos, in 2024.

Links to some of his work can be found on this page. To get in touch, reach out here.

Dreaming at Noon

Why shouldn't the sun shine in the night sky, with the stars? Though clearly still enamored of our sun, the poems of Dreaming at Noon call into question the primacy of daylight reality. For who is to say that the dream isn't as meaningful as waking life? Or how could one doubt that dreams put dreamers in touch with ultimate reality? Those exhausted by a future-driven culture of ceaseless innovation are, with this work, encouraged to reclaim past, present, and future-imagination and actuality-as a whole.

  • “As Marina Tsvetaeva writes, a poem must end unexpectedly, and so lead the reader up and away. Donkin’s brilliant, magical, and genuinely original poems do just that. The course of one will shift, its destination defying predictability. It circles its narrowing object and disappears high up, in the infinite, leaving this reader with an intense desire to contemplate and understand.”

    –Julia Nemirovskaya

  • “Dreaming is an archive of the contemporary imagination. It is a work that revives the gravity of a most provocative relation: belonging and duration within both life and death.”

    –B Lee-Harrison Aultman