Dalton founded the SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009 and served also as the festival's director for the first six years. SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a 'word spree'".[5]
Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.
Awards and honors
Dalton has won various awards for her poetry, among them the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Poetry in 1997, 2002 and 2006,[9] as well as the TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry in 1998. Her collection Merrybegot (2003) was awarded the 2005 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. It was also shortlisted for the 2004 all-genre Winterset Award, the 2004 Pat Lowther Award, and the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award. Her fourth collection is Red Ledger (2006), published by Véhicule Press, which was shortlisted for the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Atlantic Poetry Award. In 2008 a set of her riddling poems, Between You and the Weather, was published by Running the Goat Books. Hooking: A Book of Centos was released by Véhicule Press in 2013. It was shortlisted for the 2014 J. M. Abraham Award, the newly named Atlantic Poetry Prize, and for the inaugural Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, also in 2014.
Bibliography
Poetry
The Time of Icicles (Breakwater Books, 1989, 1991).
Allowing the Light (Breakwater Books, 1993).
Merrybegot (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2003; audiobook version by Rattling Books, 2005)
Red Ledger (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2006).
Between You and the Weather (Running the Goat, 2008). Wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates.
Hooking: A Book of Centos (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2013).
Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017). Chapbook, with wood engravings by Abigail Rorer.
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