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Ken Babstock was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Airstream Land Yacht which won the Trillium Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Ken Babstock lives in Toronto.

Methodist Hatchet was also shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.

Methodist Hatchet 2012 Canadian Winner

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Judges’ Citation

The feature of Airstream Land Yacht that seems most striking, on a first reading, is its range: here we find a poet who can do almost anything

Judges’ Citation

Babstock is the live wire in the gene pool: stirring things up, rocking boats, disjoining easier conjunctions, jolting the culture’s DNA.