Christopher D. Patton

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Christopher Patton (born 1969) is a Canadian poet.

Patton's first book, Ox, will be published by Signal Editions of Vehicule Press in 2007.^{[citation needed]} His children's book, Jack Pine (illustrated by Cybèle Young) will be published in fall 2007 by Groundwood Books in Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

Patton's characteristic subjects include nature, spiritual experience, the connection between those two, and what it means to see. His work has been collected in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. His awards include the Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry in 2000 "for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year."

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• http://poetryreviews.ca/2006/06/22/the-new-canon-an-anthology-of-canadian-poetry-edited-by-carmine-starnino/