CARMINE STARNINO DIRTY WORDS: Selected Poems 1997-2016 (Gaspereau Press, 2020)
"Carmine Starnino is one of the most important writers and readers of poetry in the contemporary English-speaking world." - CONTEMPORARY POETRY REVIEW
CARMINE STARNINO has published five collections of poetry, including This Way Out, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Leviathan. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism, a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. He has received numerous awards, including the CAA Prize for Poetry, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the F.G. Bressani Prize, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry. He lives in Montreal with his wife and three children.