Russell Thornton | |
Birth Place: | North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Occupation: | poet |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Period: | 2000s -- present |
Notableworks: | The Hundred Lives (2014); Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (2013) |
Russell Thornton is a Canadian poet.
His book House Built of Rain (2003) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize[1] and the 2004 ReLit Award.[2]
His collection Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain (2013) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2013 Governor General's Awards,[3] the 2014 Raymond Souster Award[4] and the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.[5]
His collection The Hundred Lives (2014) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.[6]
He is based in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
2004 | House Built of Rain | Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize | Shortlist | ||
ReLit Awards | Nominee | ||||
2013 | Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | Governor General's Award for English-language poetry | Nominee | ||
2014 | Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize | Shortlist | |||
Raymond Souster Award | Shortlist | ||||
2015 | Griffin Poetry Prize | Shortlist |