James Pollock

LRC Contributor

James Pollock is the author of Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012), which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada (Porcupine’s Quill, 2012), a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award for a collection of essays. He is also the editor of The Essential Daryl Hine (Porcupine’s Quill, 2015), which made Partisan magazine’s list of the best books of 2015. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Loras College in Iowa and lives in Madison, Wisconsin

Articles by James Pollock

  • Rhetoric Is Territory (July 2016)
    A review of The Names, by Tim Lilburn, Settler Education, by Laurie D. Graham, Don’t Be Interesting , by Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Desecrations, by Matt Rader.
  • Choosing the Best Canadian Poetry (April 2009)