Ken Babstock (born 19 January 1970) is aCanadianpoet.[1] He was born inNewfoundland and raised in theOttawa Valley. Babstock began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards. He lives inToronto,Ontario.
Babstock discovered poetry in his teens, growing up inPembroke, Ontario, in the Ottawa Valley.[1][2]
Babstock's first collection in 1999,Mean, won him theMilton Acorn Award and the 2000Atlantic Poetry Prize. According to the official edition of 1999,Mean is a "stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives." Babstock has since published a second collection,Days into Flatspin, which has also come in for high critical praise.[3]
He was the winner of a K.M. Hunter Award. His poems have won gold at the National Magazine Awards, have been anthologized in Canada and the United States, and have been translated into Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, and Latvian.[3]
Babstock worked as Poetry Faculty at theBanff Centre for the Arts and lives inToronto, Ontario.
Babstock's collection,Airstream Land Yacht, won theTrillium Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2007 CanadianGriffin Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the2006 Governor General's Award for poetry.
Babstock's collectionMethodist Hatchet, won the 2012 CanadianGriffin Poetry Prize. In 2014, he won the inauguralLatner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.[4]
Babstock published a book-length poem,On Malice, in 2014. His most recent collection isSwivelmount, released in late 2020 fromCoach House Books, and was shortlisted for theReLit Award for poetry in 2021.[5]
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