Don McKay — Neanderthal Dig

<p>Don McKay’s poem “Neanderthal Dig” begins with the discovery of an ancient, child-sized skeleton placed on the wing of a swan and then takes flight, showing us how love and death are riddled with paradoxes — mixing the earthbound and the sacred, the personal and the universal, the time-stamped and the never ending.</p><p>Don McKay is the multi-award-winning author of multiple books of poetry, including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/don-mckay-neanderthal-dig/#media"><i>Lurch</i></a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/don-mckay-neanderthal-dig/#media"><i>Paradoxides</i></a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/don-mckay-neanderthal-dig/#media"><i>Strike/Slip</i></a> (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize), and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/don-mckay-neanderthal-dig/#media"><i>Camber</i>: <i>Selected Poems</i></a> (finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and a <i>Globe and Mail </i>Notable Book of the Year). McKay has taught poetry in universities across Canada. He cur...