Chris Banks (poet)
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Chris Banks (born 1970) is a Canadian poet.
Life[edit]
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Banks' childhood was spent in the small Ontario towns of Stayner, Sioux Lookout, and Bancroft. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph, before moving on to complete a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Concordia University and later a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario. Banks later began teaching at Bluevale Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.
Career[edit]
Banks' works include a chapbook, Form Letters (2002). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors' Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. In 2023, one of his sonnets was published in The Walrus.[1]
Awards and recognition[edit]
- 2004: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, Bonfires[2]
- 2004: Finalist for Gerald Lampert Award for poetry, Bonfires
- 2006: Gowlings Literary Award[3]
Bibliography[edit]
- 2002: Form Letters, Junction Books (chapbook)
- 2003: Bonfires, Nightwood Editions
- 2006: Sparrows and Arrows, Bilbioasis (chapbook)
- 2006: The Cold Panes of Surfaces, Nightwood Editions
- 2011: Winter Cranes, ECW Press
- 2015: Invaders, Anstruther Press, (chapbook)
- 2017: The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory, ECW Press[4]
- 2019: MidLife Action Figure, ECW Press
- 2021: Shadow Forecast, Floodlight Editions (chapbook)
- 2021: Deep Fake Serenade, Nightwood Editions
- 2023: Alternator, Harbour Publishing
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Banks, Chris (2023-11-02). "Sonnet". The Walrus. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
- ^ "Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
- ^ 2006 KW Arts Award Winners Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Reviews: Chris Banks's The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory and Spencer Gordon's Cruise Missile Liberals". The Globe and Mail. 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
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