Donato Mancini is a

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poet."Mancini debuts as University of Windsor writer-in-residence"
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'', September 28, 2017. He is most noted for his 2017 collection ''Same Diff'', which was a shortlisted

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finalist in 2018."Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aisha Sasha John, and Donato Mancini shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize"
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'', April 10, 2018. He has also been a two-time

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nominee for his poetry collections ''Ligatures'' in 2006 and ''Æthel'' in 2008. Originally from

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, he is a graduate of the

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Books

* ''Ligatures'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005 * ''Æthel'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2007 * ''Buffet World'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2011 * ''Loitersack'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2014 * ''Snowline'', Buffalo/Toronto: eth Press, 2015 * ''Same Diff'', Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017

References

21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian male poets Canadian literary critics People from Burlington, Ontario University of British Columbia alumni Writers from Ontario Living people Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-poet-stub