- Ken Babstock
Ken Babstock is a Canadian
poet . [ [http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=3 House of Anansi Press : authors ] ] He was born in Newfoundland and raised in theOttawa Valley . Babstock began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards. He currently lives inToronto .Early Years
Babstock discovered poetry in his teens, growing up in Pembroke, Ontario, in the Ottawa Valley. [ [http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_03.30.06/features/feature.php Eye Weekly ] ] [ [http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=3 House of Anansi Press : authors ] ]
Career and Awards
Babstock's first collection in 1999, "Mean", won him the
Milton Acorn Award and the 2000Atlantic Poetry Prize . According to the official edition of 1999, "Mean" is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives." Babstock has since published a second collection, "Days into Flatspin", which has also come in for high critical praise. [ [http://www.wordfest.com/festival_authors_profile.php?authors_id=167 WordFest 2008 ] ]He was the winner of a K.M. Hunter Award. His poems have won Gold at the National Magazine Awards, have been anthologized in Canada and the United States, and have been translated into Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, and Latvian. [ [http://www.wordfest.com/festival_authors_profile.php?authors_id=167 WordFest 2008 ] ]
Babstock worked as Poetry Faculty at the
Banff Centre for the Arts and currently lives inToronto . He is currently the poetry editor for the Toronto-based pressHouse of Anansi .Babstock's most recent collection, "Airstream Land Yacht", won the
Trillium Book Award , was shortlisted for the 2007 CanadianGriffin Poetry Prize , and was nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for poetry.References
External links
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=1 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=3&return_id=596 Profile on House of Anansi Press Web site]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=458 Ken Babstock talks about his private bookshelf, online from CBC Words at Large (audio)]
* [http://poetryreviews.ca/2006/06/29/airstream-land-yacht-by-ken-babstock/ Airstream Land Yacht by Ken Babstock]
* [http://www.wordfest.com/festival_authors_profile.php?authors_id=167 Ken Babstock biography]
* [http://www.unb.ca/news/view.cgi?id=1225 Ken Babstock and Jan Conn]
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