Conor Mc Donnell
Poet and pediatric physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, author of the long poem What We Know So Far Is... (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025), and an associate professor at the University of Toronto with work bridging medicine and literature.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 1h 8min
Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
Conor Mc Donnell, a poet and pediatric physician at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, explores a long poem blending Irish roots, clinical life, and cultural history. He discusses language as evolving and weaponized. Short, cinematic sections riff on news anxiety, dark humor in medicine, editing into a unified long poem, and the poem’s shifting, chorus-like voices.
