Chris Banks (poet)

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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.

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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

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References

  1. Banks, Chris (2023-11-02). "Sonnet". The Walrus . Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  2. "Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
  3. 2006 KW Arts Award Winners Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "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.