Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino has published five collections of poetry, including This Way Out, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Leviathan. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism, a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. He has received numerous awards, including the CAA Prize for Poetry, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the F.G. Bressani Prize, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry. He lives in Montreal with his wife and three children.



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Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry
Carmine Starnino

2012 / Literary Criticism / $27.95
9781554471188 / Trade paper / 272 pp


‘If grown-ups don’t read poetry’, writes poet and critic Carmine Starnino, ‘it’s not because they have a bone to pick with poets. The truth is even more intolerable: they prefer not to. . . They’re just not that into us.’ In his latest collection of critical essays, Starnino reports on the state of poetry with his usual sleeves-rolled-up approach to literary criticism which synthesizes broad observation with close reading. Engaging both icons (Atwood, Birney, McKay, Moritz, bpNichol) and lesser-knowns (James Denoon, Anne Szumigalski, Peter Trower), Starnino writes with the style, wit and intensity of a poet-critic, offering confident, intelligent candour where we have too often settled for ‘bland, much-recycled truisms’.



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Other Books by this Author

Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016
Carmine Starnino

2020 / Canadian Poetry / $26.95 CAN
9781554472123 / Trade paper / 192 pp
Leviathan
Carmine Starnino

2016 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781554471546 / Trade paper / 80 pp
This Way Out
Carmine Starnino

2009 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781554470518 / Trade paper / 80 pp
With English Subtitles
Carmine Starnino

2004 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781894031899 / Trade paper / 80 pp

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