Shane Book

Shane Book is a Canadian poet.^[1] He was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for his second collection, Congotronic.^[2]

Of Trinidadian descent,^[1] Book is based in Ottawa.^[3] His first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, was published in 2010, and he was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2011 for "Almost Spain".^[3] He obtained his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Bibliography

• Ceiling of Sticks. University of Nebraska Press, 2010. ISBN 9780803215580
• Congotronic. University of Iowa Press, 2014. ISBN 9781609383077
• All Black Everything. University of Iowa Press, 2023. ISBN 9781609389239