Craig Poile

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Craig Poile is a Canadian poet, who won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2010 for his collection True Concessions.[1] He was also a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 1999 for his debut collection First Crack,[1] and for an Ottawa Book Award in 2010 for True Concessions.[2]

Originally from New Brunswick, he studied journalism and English literature at Carleton University.[2]

Poile's poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly,[1] Malahat Review,[1] The Fiddlehead,[2] Literary Review of Canada,[2] Arc,[1] Best Canadian Poetry[1] and Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets.[3] He was the co-owner of Collected Works, an independent bookstore in Ottawa which closed in 2012.[4]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Craig Poile winner of 2010 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry". Arc Poetry, October 30, 2010.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Craig Poile’s True Concessions nominated for an Ottawa Book Award". Open Book Toronto, September 30, 2010.
  3. "Seminal achievement includes local writers". Xtra Ottawa, April 5, 2007.
  4. "Local bookstore hoping to be saved by Christmas miracle". CBC News, December 9, 2012.