Chris Banks : part one

Chris Banks is a Canadian poet and author of five collections of poems, most recently Midlife Action Figure by ECW Press 2019. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada.  His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, Arc Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Event, The Malahat Review, Prism International, among other publications. He lives and writes in Waterloo, Ontario.

What are you working on? 

I’m working a new manuscript called Deep Fake Serenade. It is a collection of poems that leap off from where my last book Midlife Action Figure ended. The poems are sometimes narrative, sometimes surreal and confront all kinds of topics like turning fifty, new love, and renewed optimism in the face of global catastrophes. It is an imaginative work for anyone who ever wished to wear “a halo of knowing” or to be the sparks flying when outside phenomena and inside impulses collide.