Chris Banks (poet)

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

  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.


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