Jim Johnstone: Bait and Switch

About this episode

Jim Johnstone discusses his work as a poet and editor, including his award-winning poetry collections.

Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Chemical Life, which was shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award. Johnstone has also won several awards, including the Bliss Carman Poetry Award, a CBC Literary Award, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Robin Blaser Award, and Poetry's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing. Currently, he curates the Anstruther Books imprint at Windsor’s Palimpsest Press, where he published The ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Kim, Irene, Sarah

Guest: Jim Johnstone

Topics covered

• poetry
• literature
• editing
• awards
• publishing

Keywords

• Jim Johnstone
• poet
• The Chemical Life
• Palimpsest Press
• awards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anstruther Books, Palimpsest Press

Books & works: The Chemical Life

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