Ken Babstock
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Ken Babstock is a Canadian poet. He was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. He began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards.
His first collection, Mean (1999), won him the Milton Acorn Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. According to the official edition of 1999, "Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and devide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives." Ken Babstock has since published a second collection, Days into Flatspin, which has also come in for high critical praise.
Ken Babstock worked as Poetry Faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts and currently lives in Toronto. He is currently the poetry editor for the Toronto-based press House of Anansi.
Babstock's most recent collection, Airstream Land Yacht is shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for poetry.
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