Carmine Starnino

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Carmine Starnino, is a poet, essayist, University instructor, editor of Signal Editions, and associate editor of Maisonneuve (magazine). He was born in Montreal, into an Italianheritage. His first poetry collection The New World (McGill-Queen's University Press)was nominated for the 1997 QSPELL A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His second collection Credo won the 2001 Canadian Authors Associate Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. He has also written A Lover's Quarrel, a book of essays on Canadian poetry, and With English Subtitles, a third collection of poems.

Carmine Starnino is a great admirer of David Solway and Irving Layton, both fellow Montrealers, but Starnino has always had, since his earliest poems, an original voice that is detectable to most keen readers of poetry. He is considered by most critics and poets alike to be "the attack-dog" of Canadian poetry. Starnino, who is in his thirties, is considered by many University thinkers and students, alike, to be an evolving poet who has written important literary criticism.