Jeff Latosik
Jeff Latosik is the author of the poetry collections Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Safely Home Pacific Western, and Dreampad. In 2009, he was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers – Poetry. Latosik’s work has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and included in The Best Canadian Poetry. He lives in Stratford, Ontario.
Writers & Books
Award History
2009 - Finalist
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
forHow the Tiklaalik Came Onto Land and Other Poems
Jury Citation
“These poems exhibit an intriguing off-kilter lyricism, an imagination prone to extreme hikes. Urban spaces, in these poems, are familiar, yet unsettling, by virtue of the poet’s startling metaphors – a corkboard of thought, a wristwatch that’s also a theatre. These poems often challenge proportion and scale, probe the surreal, and investigate their own gritty myths of origin.” — 2009 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury (Don Domanski, Jeanette Lynes, and Anne Simpson)Juror History
Works Recognized by WT