Carmine Starnino

Starnino's fourth collection, This Way Out (2009), was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry and, again, won the A.M. Klein prize.

Starnino went on to publish Lazy Bastardism (2012), a collection of essays and reviews, and Leviathan (2016) a book of poems.

His most recent book, published in 2020, Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016, was awarded the inaugural Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Poetry Award, and was praised by the jury for having "expanded the English language by bringing Italian words into its matrix."

Starnino left his post as Deputy Editor of The Walrus in 2019 to move back to Montreal, and currently serves as the magazine's Editor-in-Chief.

Starnino is well known for the provocative nature of his criticism and pointedness of his opinions, which have incited a variety of heated counter-criticisms from other poets and critiques.