Jordan Scott (poet)

Jordan Scott (born May 8, 1978) is a Canadian poet, who won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize in 2018. ^[1]

Scott's first book of poetry, Silt, was published in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2006. ^[2] He followed up in 2008 with Blert, a collection of poetry inspired by his lifelong struggle with stuttering. ^[3]

In 2013, Scott and Stephen Collis collaborated on Decomp, a book which combined prose poetry with photography. ^[4] In 2015 he was granted access to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, spending five days exploring the facility and publishing the multimedia work Clearance Process in 2016 to document his visit. ^[5]

His 2020 children's book, I Talk Like a River, was named as Best Children's Book of the Year Award for 2020 by Publishers Weekly , ^[6] and was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize. ^[7]

Works

• Silt (2005)
• Blert (2008)
• Decomp (2013)
• Clearance Process (2016)
• Night & Ox (2017)
• I Talk Like a River (2020) illustrated by Sydney Smith
  • German: Ich bin wie der Fluss (2021)
• My Baba's garden (2023) illustrated by Sydney Smith

References

1. "Books inspired by the authors’ parents win the top Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star , November 7, 2018.
2. "Smaller publishers land on BC Book Prizes shortlist". Vancouver Sun , March 18, 2006.
3. "Stuttering steps into spotlight". Edmonton Journal , April 26, 2008.
4. "Poets on board". Prince George Citizen , November 22, 2013.
5. "SFU writer–in–residence Jordan Scott reflects on Guantanamo Bay". Simon Fraser University, May 20, 2016.
6. "I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott: 9780823445592 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
7. Ryan Porter, "Eight shortlists announced for BC and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire , April 8, 2021.