Chris Banks
@chrisbanks6625.bsky.social
I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
New Sluggo tattoo. By Sammuelfrost
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New Sluggo tattoo. By Sammuelfrost
My copies of Best Canadian Essays 2026 arrived this afternoon. Thanks to editorBrian Bethune for selecting my essay “Black Hammers Falling” orinally published in The New Quarterly for the anthology. And thanks BIblioasis for publishing this series!
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My copies of Best Canadian Essays 2026 arrived this afternoon. Thanks to editorBrian Bethune for selecting my essay “Black Hammers Falling” orinally published in The New Quarterly for the anthology. And thanks BIblioasis for publishing this series!
Jack Gilbert. You read him and you read him and the poems almost become like old jokes you have heard before until suddenly one hits you like you've never read it. Whoa. This poem is dynamite.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Jack Gilbert. You read him and you read him and the poems almost become like old jokes you have heard before until suddenly one hits you like you've never read it. Whoa. This poem is dynamite.
New author photo. My daughter took it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New author photo. My daughter took it.
Hey just a reminder that my last poetry book Alternator is awesome even after being out for two years. There is a long poetry sequence made of six couplet ghazals and a section of non rhymed autobiographical sonnets and a middle section of lightly surreal poems. It’s the business.
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hey just a reminder that my last poetry book Alternator is awesome even after being out for two years. There is a long poetry sequence made of six couplet ghazals and a section of non rhymed autobiographical sonnets and a middle section of lightly surreal poems. It’s the business.
Halloween was successful.
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Halloween was successful.
Newish little poem.
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Newish little poem.
Poetry broadsides. Here is a favourite of mine. Signed copy of Philip Levine’s “What Work Is”
August 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Poetry broadsides. Here is a favourite of mine. Signed copy of Philip Levine’s “What Work Is”
Some more pictures from picking up my poetry broadside at Flycatcher Press! Phoebe is wonderful to work with! :)
July 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Some more pictures from picking up my poetry broadside at Flycatcher Press! Phoebe is wonderful to work with! :)
Thanks Phoebe at @flycatcherpress.bsky.social for making such a beautiful poetry broadside out of my poem “Coupons for Byzantium”. So happy with it!
July 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thanks Phoebe at @flycatcherpress.bsky.social for making such a beautiful poetry broadside out of my poem “Coupons for Byzantium”. So happy with it!
My secret poetry broadside (not so secret...) in collaboration with Flycatcher Press has been printed! It is limited to 50 copies. Thanks Phoebe!
July 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My secret poetry broadside (not so secret...) in collaboration with Flycatcher Press has been printed! It is limited to 50 copies. Thanks Phoebe!
When I think of writing poems, I think of taking up space, not the music so much but the energy. www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-...
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
When I think of writing poems, I think of taking up space, not the music so much but the energy. www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-...
Another new poem by me.
July 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Another new poem by me.
One of my poems over at OnlyPoems.net
July 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
One of my poems over at OnlyPoems.net
New toy morning for Lenny!
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New toy morning for Lenny!
Really excited about my friend and Boston poet Lara Egger’s new book Flop Era which I was lucky enough to blurb. You know what to do.
July 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Really excited about my friend and Boston poet Lara Egger’s new book Flop Era which I was lucky enough to blurb. You know what to do.
Lagos Portugal for three nights and then back to Canada!
July 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lagos Portugal for three nights and then back to Canada!
My friend John Gallaher on my last poetry book Alternator.
July 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My friend John Gallaher on my last poetry book Alternator.