Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock is a Canadian poet born in Newfoundland who won the Griffin Poetry Prize for a Canadian poet in 2012 for Methodist Hatchet. He has also won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. His poetry is characterised by its linguistic inventiveness, formal range, and engagement with urban experience and the philosophy of mind. Babstock is the author of several collections, including Mean (1999), Days into Flatspin (2001), Airstream Land Yacht (2006), Methodist Hatchet (2011), and On Malice (2014). He has been a major figure in Canadian poetry for two decades, known for his willingness to push the boundaries of lyric form. He has taught creative writing at several institutions and has been involved in numerous literary festivals. Babstock lives in Toronto.