Jim Johnstone (poet)

Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a reproductive physiologist and Canadian poet. He was born in Stouffville, Ontario^[1] and is the author of four collections of poetry.

Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry Magazine's Readers' Choice Award,^[2] a CBC Literary Award,^[3] the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, Matrix Magazine's Lit-Pop Award,^[4] the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize,^[5] and he won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt.^[6]

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.^[7]

Publications

Poetry

• The Velocity Of Escape. Guernica Editions, 2008. ^[8]
• Patternicity. Nightwood Editions, 2010. ^[9]
• Sunday, the locusts. Tightrope Books, 2011. ^[10]
• Dog Ear. Véhicule Press, 2014. ^[11]

As Editor

• The Essential Earle Birney. Porcupine's Quill, 2014. ^[12]
• The Essential D. G. Jones. Porcupine's Quill, 2016. ^[13]

About

• Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone. Frog Hollow Press, 2011. ^[14]

References