Books,
All Day I Dream about Sirens (Coach House Books, 2019)
‘All Day I Dream About Sirens’ is a shrewd epic that shimmies up and down the scales from highbrow to lowbrow. Domenica Martinello sharpens her teeth on tradition, wields tone like an axe, and carves space for unheard voices to emerge from the chorus. This poet harnesses the ethereal quality of digital and classical realms while her poems explode with fury and grace.
— 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award jury (Adèle Barclay, Stuart Ross, and Moez Surani)
“Martinello evaluates the siren as an object of both fantasy and horror, adopting the voices of mermaids from Homer to Starbucks to examine branding, embodiment, and personal identity under capitalism. Her poems read like a contemporary Greek chorus, proffering up trees and tides and gasps through an enviable command of lyric and form.”
The Paris Review
“An intoxicating debut... [Martinello’s] poems are dazzling, exhilarating.”
Electric Literature
“Rich with myth, pop culture, and feminism, All Day I Dream about Sirens is a striking debut that offers a clarion call for many women.”
Quill & Quire
“Domenica Martinello recasts the image of the siren in her debut collection, a brash, slyly subversive romp through mythology, folklore and pop culture.”
The Toronto Star
“[Martinello’s] collection is a virtuosic essay at how to pick up the lyre as a poet lettered in the Western tradition... The book works as one long brilliant subtweet to the Orphic tradition... as she reinstates sirens’ powerful knowledge to its true position to strike terror into entitled men’s hearts.”
The Puritan
“In its expansive net-casting... the book is a catalogue of fish-women, and Martinello’s take on the catalogue or list is refreshing. She excels, not just at lists, exactly, but in crafty parallelism creating extended list-like forms.”
Arc Poetry Magazine
“Martinello’s mermaids aren’t family-friendly; they’re fierce.”
CNQ
“ADIDAS is also a formally experimental collection... often fragmenting syntax into language that mirrors the stereotypical reduction of the female body to its anatomical parts”
The Montreal Review of Books
Interviews:
The Adroit Journal
Un Memento
Panorama Italia
Open Book
The Paris Review
“An intoxicating debut... [Martinello’s] poems are dazzling, exhilarating.”
Electric Literature
“Rich with myth, pop culture, and feminism, All Day I Dream about Sirens is a striking debut that offers a clarion call for many women.”
Quill & Quire
“Domenica Martinello recasts the image of the siren in her debut collection, a brash, slyly subversive romp through mythology, folklore and pop culture.”
The Toronto Star
“[Martinello’s] collection is a virtuosic essay at how to pick up the lyre as a poet lettered in the Western tradition... The book works as one long brilliant subtweet to the Orphic tradition... as she reinstates sirens’ powerful knowledge to its true position to strike terror into entitled men’s hearts.”
The Puritan
“In its expansive net-casting... the book is a catalogue of fish-women, and Martinello’s take on the catalogue or list is refreshing. She excels, not just at lists, exactly, but in crafty parallelism creating extended list-like forms.”
Arc Poetry Magazine
“Martinello’s mermaids aren’t family-friendly; they’re fierce.”
CNQ
“ADIDAS is also a formally experimental collection... often fragmenting syntax into language that mirrors the stereotypical reduction of the female body to its anatomical parts”
The Montreal Review of Books
Interviews:
The Adroit Journal
Un Memento
Panorama Italia
Open Book
Anthologies,
Best Canadian Poetry 2019, ed. Rob Taylor (Biblioasis, 2019)
Poetry editor,
Confirmation Bias by Ivanna Baranova (Metatron Press, 2019)
Chapbooks,
Interzones, words(on)pages (Spring 2015)
“It is this type of abject imagery throughout Interzones that gives Domenica Martinello’s poetry such precision and unyielding passion. Her thoughtful mediations on representation and identity challenge conventional norms of desire and repulsion.”
The Fjords Review
Interview:
The McGill Daily
“It is this type of abject imagery throughout Interzones that gives Domenica Martinello’s poetry such precision and unyielding passion. Her thoughtful mediations on representation and identity challenge conventional norms of desire and repulsion.”
The Fjords Review
Interview:
The McGill Daily
Recent Poems,
- Hot Pump (forthcoming, The Malahat Review)
- I Pray to Be Useful (forthcoming, Arc Poetry Magazine)
- Two poems (forthcoming, The South Carolina Review)
- Little Light (Salt Hill Journal, 2021)
- It Follows (The Walrus, 2020)
- Equinox (Maisonneuve, 2019)
- Good Want and On The Day Mary Oliver Died (The Columbia Review, 2019)
- All The Trimmings (Poetry Northwest, 2019)
- Cattle of the Sun (Lemon Hound 3.0)
- The Last Surviving Sea Silk Seamstress (mRb)
- Excerpt from Disney Song (THIS Magazine)
- The Ideation Project (The Puritan)
- Parthenope & Virgil (DUSIE)
- Zenith (NewPoetry.ca)
- Taraxacum and Saucebox (The Puritan)
- ADIDAS and How to Salt a Fish (Cosmonauts Avenue)
- Contact Zones and O Jamesy (Lemon Hound)
- Virginia’s Moth (carte blanche)
Selected Essays,
- Ritual Nostalgia: Revising the MFA Stasis (carte blanche)
- Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation (carte blanche) *winner of the 3Macs prize
- Ben Lerner and the Failure of Poetry (The Town Crier)
- Thinking Publicly: The End of Lemon Hound (The Town Crier)
Selected Book Reviews,
- Obits. by Tess Liem (Vallum)
- I Am a Feminist: Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times by Monique Polak and What Makes Girls Sick and Tired by Lucile de Pesloüan (The Montreal Review of Books)
- Ekke by Klara du Plessis (The Montreal Review of Books)
- Slow War by Benjamin Hertwig and Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin (CNQ)
- The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory by Chris Banks and Cruise Missile Liberals by Spencer Gordon (The Globe & Mail)
- I have to live. by Aisha Sasha John (Vallum)
- Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinson (CNQ)
- Common Place by Sarah Pinder and Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove (The Globe & Mail)
- Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard (The Town Crier)
- Polyamorous Love Song by Jacob Wren (The Town Crier)