Christopher Patton
BIO
Biography

Christopher Patton is a poet, translator, and literary curator. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, New American Writing, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, his visual poetry in Diagram, Ancient Exchanges, Asymptote, and again elsewhere. His most recent books, all with Gaspereau Press, are Curious Masonry (2011), a book of translations from Old English; Unlikeness Is Us (2018), a book of translations from Old English that received an American Book Award; and Dumuzi (2020), his second book of poetry. His first of poetry, Ox, was published by Véhicule Press in 2008. Recent collaborations, again with Gaspereau, include Slipsheets (2023), with Andrew Steeves, and Fast-Vanishing Speech (2024), with Klara du Plessis and Jim Johnstone. He is now at work on digital exhibition on the typography of printed books of the handpress period, and on a series of poems, Stray & Stranger, written in collaboration with an AI named Dragon.

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, visual poetry
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Fast-Vanishing Speech (with Klara du Plessis and Jim Johnstone)
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2024
Title
An Incidental Printing of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” on Slipsheets (with Andrew Steeves)
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2023
Title
Dumuzi
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2020
Title
Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2018
Title
Curious Masonry: Three Translations from the Anglo-Saxon
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2011
Title
Ox
Publisher
Signal Editions (Véhicule Press)
Year
2007
Title
Jack Pine
Publisher
Groundwood Books (House of Anansi)
Year
2007
AWARDS
Awards
Name
American Book Award
Publication
Before Columbus Foundation
Year
2019
Name
Utah Writer's Contest
Publication
Western Humanities Review
Year
2010
Name
Craig Arnold Memorial Poetry Prize
Publication
University of Utah & Academy of American Poets
Year
2010
Name
Graduate Research Award
Publication
University of Utah
Year
2011
Name
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry
Publication
The Paris Review
Year
2001
LINKS
Links
The Art of Compost
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
Any number
Presentation Genre
Poetry, visual poetry, poetry in translation, literary exhibition, book history, print culture, manuscript culture
Presentation Length
From 30 min to 2 hours.
Presentation Description
Presentation description

To be worked out with host.

Presentation Fee(s)
To be worked out with host.
Workshop details
Audience Size
Up to 25
Intended Audience
High school students, college students, adult students, reading groups.
Workshop Length
1 to 3 hours.
Workshop Description
Workshop description

To be worked out with host.

Workshop Fee(s)
To be worked out with host.
School presentation details
Audience Size
From 10 to 100.
Intended Audience
Elementary, high school, college
Presentation Length
From 30 to 12 minutes
Presentation Description
Presentation description

To be worked out with host.

Presentation Fee(s)
To be worked out with host.
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