Jim Johnstone (poet)
Canadian poet

Jim Johnstone (poet)

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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.
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.

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Poetry

  • The Velocity Of Escape. Guernica Editions, 2008.
  • Patternicity. Nightwood Editions, 2010.
  • Sunday, the locusts. Tightrope Books, 2011.
  • Dog Ear. Véhicule 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.