Canadian Poets Series #33 : Chris Banks
Chris Banks is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated Canadian poet and author of seven collections of poems, most recently Bureau of Useless Splendour (ECW PRESS Fall 2026). His first full-length collection, Bonfires , was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly , Arc Magazine , The Antigonish Review , Event , OnlyPoems , The Malahat Review , The Walrus , American Poetry Journal , The Glacier , Best American Poetry (blog) , Prism International and the Spotlight series , among other publications. You can find recent essays at The Woodlot and Advanced Leisure , as well as interviews conducted via podcasts Page Fright and Watershed Writers . Chris was an associate editor with The New Quarterly , and is Editor in Chief of The Woodlot – A Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays website. He...
