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Banks's works include a chapbook ''Form Letters'' from Junction Books in 2002, and his first full-length collection ''Bonfires'' which was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors' Association in 2004. Previous recipients of the Jack Chalmers Award have included Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, Don McKay, and Patrick Lane. ''Bonfires'' was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Another chapbook of his work entitled ''Sparrows and Arrows'' was published by Biblioasis press in the spring of 2006. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario , Canada where he writes and teaches high school.


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