Poetry Project: John Barton, October 29, 2009

John Barton has published nine books of poetry and five chapbooks, including West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a Self-Portrait, Great Men, Notes toward a Family Tree Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis (ECW, 1998), and Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001). He has won a Patricia Hackett Prize, three Archibald Lampman Awards, an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award, and a National Magazine Award. In 2008 – 2009, he was writer in residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. The editor of The Malahat Review in Victoria, he will be reading from Hymn, published by Brick Books in August 2009.

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