The next launch for Rush of Wingspan will be in Amsterdam on November 8th at 17.00 at the American Book Center. Tickets are free

Dublin is a UNESCO city of literature, and one feels this everywhere including at street level. On Friday evening a young construction worker, his tool belt still slung around his hips, greeted us …

On August 5 at 6:30 pm I’ll be reading from Rush of Wingspan at the Winding Stair bookstore in Dublin, Ireland. All are welcome.

I’m deeply honoured to have this thoughtful and perceptive review in the Montreal Review of Books. “Schönmaier writes with remarkable clarity and restraint about memory, landscape, musi…

Panos Gklistis and I had a wonderful Rush of Wingspan Poetry in Concert rehearsal yesterday. It sounded so gorgeous that I said to him I want to sit in the audience but of course I can’t be i…

Poetry film featuring imagery from Rush of Wingspan including original sound track and bird song plus cameos of pianist Panos Gklistis and I.

The first book launch for Rush of Wingspan will be Poetry in Concert.

As a guest blogger for McGill-Queen's University Press, I explore what inspired Rush of Wingspan. Plus additional news!

It’s the official release date for Rush of Wingspan. You’ll enter alternative worlds with lots of seaside imagery, and of course some owls

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

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.…

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…

Julie Sedivy reviews Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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...

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.

Eleonore Schönmaier shares the simplicity of her writing space, where the most complicated process of writing occurs. Read now!

“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…