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Jim Johnstone (poet)

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Name
  
Jim Johnstone

Role
  
Poet

Education
  
University of Toronto


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Books
  
Dog Ear, Patternicity: Poems, Sunday - the Locusts, The Velocity of Escape, Epoch

Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a reproductive physiologist and Canadian poet. He was born in Stouffville, Ontario and is the author of four collections of poetry.

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Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry Magazine's Readers' Choice Award, a CBC Literary Award, the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, Matrix Magazine's Lit-Pop Award, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and he won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt.

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.

Poetry

  • The Velocity Of Escape. Guernica Editions, 2008.
  • Patternicity. Nightwood Editions, 2010.
  • Sunday, the locusts. Tightrope Books, 2011.
  • Dog Ear. VĂ©hicule Press, 2014.
  • As Editor

  • The Essential Earle Birney. Porcupine's Quill, 2014.
  • The Essential D. G. Jones. Porcupine's Quill, 2016.
  • About

  • Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone. Frog Hollow Press, 2011.
  • References

    Jim Johnstone (poet) Wikipedia