Name Mark Truscott | Role Poet | |
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Books Said Like Reeds Or Things, Nature | ||
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Mark Truscott (born 1970) is a Toronto poet. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. He attended several public schools and Nelson High School in Burlington, Ontario and went on for a B.A. and M.A. in English at McMaster University in Hamilton.
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His first collection, Said Like Reeds or Things (Coach House Books, 2004), was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and received an Alcuin Society Book Design Awards citation for Darren Wershler-Henry’s design. BookThug published his second poetry book, Nature, in 2010, and a prose chapbook, Form: A Series, in 2011. Poems appear in the anthologies Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury Press, 2005) and Pissing Ice: An Anthology of 'New' Canadian Poets (BookThug, 2004). He co-edited the small magazine BafterC with Jay MillAr and curated the Test Reading Series.