Chris Banks
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I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
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It’s time to submit your poetry collection for the 2026 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! Be sure to review the submission guidelines listed on the Al Purdy A-frame Association website. One outstanding poet will be awarded $10,000! 📝✨ #PurdyPrize2026 #CanadianPoetryPrize #CallForSubmissions
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rob mclennan writes about his latest poetry collection, the book of sentences (University of Calgary press, Fall 2025), and offers an excerpt over at the The Woodlot - Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays.

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"I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse….”
On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except
by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…
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Just heard copies of Best Canadian Essays 2026 are heading my way! Slowly putting a manuscript of poetry essays and reviews
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Feeling a little creative burned out so just resting up this morning. Maybe I’ll pull out Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack and Honey which always inspires and puts me in a good mood. Getting some nice notes from poets about pieces in The Woodlot which always feels good.
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The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
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Alright going to settle down and work on my own poetry this weekend. No more reviews or essays for awhile.
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I wrote about the perils and pleasures of the Canadian Long Poem. A daunting subject!

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"The long poem puts demands on a reader, and “the form” it chooses is one of its own design. We cannot rely on the familiar signposts of shorter lyric narrative poems….”
The Perils and Pleasures of The Canadian Long Poem
by Chris Banks The Canadian Long Poem is having a bit of a renaissance right now. Everywhere I look, I see Canadian poets churning out verse novels, or book length poems on everything from climate …
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From @dseuss.bsky.social's book Frank: Sonnets.

Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/franksonnets

#poem #books #writing
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Just received my copy of Fan Mail by Jason Guriel. Looking forward to reading it this week.
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Wrote a poetry review, mowed the lawn, did the laundry, walked the dog, even showered. I’m unstoppable today
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getting hung up on the continuity of a nintendo franchise is like losing at chess to a dog, except there isn't a dog and there never was, there isn't a chessboard either, you're not even indoors, you're standing in the parking lot of a shuttered Kmart, a hollow wind blows
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Got a tough group of grade 10 kids this term whom melted into laughter when I told them if I was a rapper I would be MC Phatjesus and if I was a DJ I would be DJ IceColdPop. Teaching high school is 60 percent theatre.
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Whoa! By my count I have about twenty essays on poetic matters that I have published over at the Wood-Lot. I think in about six months I will again try to compile them into a manuscript and send it out to publishers.
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Have some nice blurbs for my next poetry book lined up! Book is not out for a year but lots to do still.