Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a Canadian reproductive physiologist and

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. He was born in

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and is the author of four collections of poetry. Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including ''

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's'' Readers' Choice Award, a CBC Literary Award, the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, ''Matrix Magazines Lit-Pop Award, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and he won ''

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's'' Great Canadian Literary Hunt. Johnstone is the former editor of ''Misunderstandings Magazine'', a

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he founded with Ian Williams and Vicki Sloot in 2005, and the former poetry editor for Cactus Press.

Publications

Poetry

* ''The Velocity Of Escape''. Guernica Editions, 2008. * ''Patternicity''. Nightwood Editions, 2010. * ''Sunday, the locusts''. Tightrope Books, 2011. * ''Dog Ear''. Véhicule Press, 2014.

As editor

* ''The Essential Earle Birney''. Porcupine's Quill, 2014. * ''The Essential D. G. Jones''. Porcupine's Quill, 2016.

About

* ''Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone''. Frog Hollow Press, 2011.

References

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