Chris Banks (poet) explained
Chris Banks (born 1970) is a Canadian poet.
Life
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
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
Bibliography
- 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
References
- Web site: Banks . Chris . 2023-11-02 . Sonnet . 2023-11-22 . . en-US.
- Web site: Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list . 2011-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131106000456/http://www.canauthors.org/awards/poetry.html . 2013-11-06 . dead .
- http://www.kwartsawards.ca/section/view/?fnode=33 2006 KW Arts Award Winners
- News: 2017-12-14 . Reviews: Chris Banks's The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory and Spencer Gordon's Cruise Missile Liberals . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2023-11-22.
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