Shane Book

Background

Shane Book born in 1970, grew up in Canada and Ghana. Shane Book is a Canadian poet and writer. He is known for his work in contemporary poetry. His poetry often explores themes related to identity, history, and the human experience. Shane Book has published several poetry collections, including "Ceiling of Sticks," which won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, and "Congotronic," which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

His writing is characterized by its lyrical style and engagement with social and cultural issues. From 2015 to 2016, he lived in Nashville, Tennessee and taught in the MFA Program at Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green. He has also lived in Ottawa, Philadelphia, Brazil, San Francisco, Lynchburg, Santa Cruz, the Shenandoah Mountains, Iowa City, New York City, Victoria, London, Vancouver, Lima and Accra. He completed his higher education at Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner fellow, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Victoria. More than twenty anthologies have published his writing, including The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.

Career

His debut poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), was chosen as a "New Poet" by the Poetry Society of America and won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Excerpts from Ceiling of Sticks won a National Magazine Award and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize.

His second collection, Congotronic, was published in 2014 by the House of Anansi Press in Canada and the University of Iowa Press in the United States. It won the Archibald Lampman Award, was chosen for the Kuhl House Poets Series, and placed in the finals for the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry, Ottawa Book Award, and Canadian Authors Association Award. Poets and Writers Magazine named Congotronic one of the "New and Noteworthy Books of 2014." Congotronic passages made the shortlist for the Poetry Society of the 2015 edition of The Best American Experimental Writing features the American Alice Faye Di Castagnola Award winner.

More than twenty anthologies, including Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, have reprinted his writing, which has been translated into Italian and Chinese and has appeared in numerous magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He has spoken and read poetry in locations all around the world.

Awards

In 2010, Shane Book won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and was a Poetry Society of America “New Poet” Selection.

In 2015, He was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for his second collection, Congotronic.

In 2011, he was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2011 for "Almost Spain".[1]

His work

Janelas (2015) Shane Book

From Flagelliform 61: tilted away(2015) Shane Book

Cieling of sticks (2010) Shane Book

Congotronic (2015) Shane Book

All black everything (2023) Shane Book

References
  1. "Nepean poet to vie for CBC Literary Award". Ottawa Citizen, March 2, 2011.

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  1. Threlfall, John. “Discover Shane Book’s World of Words.” Fine Arts Research, 06 Oct. 2023.
  2. “Shane Book.” Griffin Poetry Prize,
  3. “New American Poets: Shane Book.” Poetry Society of America,
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