Jim Johnstone (poet)
Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a reproductive physiologist and Canadian poet. He was born in Stouffville, Ontario[1] and is the author of four collections of poetry.
Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry Magazine's Readers' Choice Award,[2] a CBC Literary Award,[3] the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, Matrix Magazine's Lit-Pop Award,[4] the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize,[5] and he won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt.[6]
Johnstone is the former editor of Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he founded with Ian Williams and Vicki Sloot in 2005, and the former poetry editor for Cactus Press.[7]
Publications
Poetry
- The Velocity Of Escape. Guernica Editions, 2008. [8]
- Patternicity. Nightwood Editions, 2010. [9]
- Sunday, the locusts. Tightrope Books, 2011. [10]
- Dog Ear. Véhicule Press, 2014. [11]
As Editor
- The Essential Earle Birney. Porcupine's Quill, 2014. [12]
About
- Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone. Frog Hollow Press, 2011. [13]
References
- ↑ http://www.stouffvilleonline.com/sfp/2009/04/stouffville-native-wins-cbc-literary-award/
- ↑ http://www.arcpoetry.ca/2009/12/13/canadian-gothic/
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/radio/literaryawards/2008-awards/jim-johnstone-1.html
- ↑ http://www.matrixmagazine.org/archives/91/
- ↑ http://newpagesblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/fiddlehead-contest-winners.html
- ↑ http://this.org/magazine/2010/11/18/great-canadian-literary-hunt-2010-evel-knievel-jim-johnstone/
- ↑ http://jimjohnstone.wordpress.com/cactus-press/
- ↑ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1550712926
- ↑ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/088971245X
- ↑ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1926639367
- ↑ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1550653741
- ↑ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0889843732/
- ↑ http://www.froghollowpress.com/catalogue.html
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