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John Barton has published eight books of poetry and five chapbooks, including Designs from the Interior (Anansi, 1993), Sweet Ellipsis (ECW, 1998), Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001) and Asymmetries, (Frog Hollow, 2004). A bilingual edition of West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait, was published by BuschekBooks in 2006. He has won three Archibald Lampman Awards, the Patricia Hackett Prize (University of Western Australia), an Ottawa Book Award, and a CBC Literary Award. His poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines across Canada, USA, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He lives in Victoria, B.C., where he is editor of The Malahat Review.

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