Jason Camlot

Jason Camlot (born 1967) is a Canadian poet, scholar and songwriter. His first collection of poems, The Animal Library was nominated for the 2000 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and his co-edited collection of essays, Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century was nominated for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He teaches literature in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, and edits the Punchy Writers poetry imprint for DC Books. His scholarly research has focused on the history of literary style, and on spoken and literary sound recordings.

Poetry

The Animal Library (DC Books, 2000)

Attention All Typewriters (DC Books, 2005)

The Debaucher (Insomniac Press, 2008)

What The World Said (Mansfield Press, 2013)

Chapbooks

Lines Crossed Out [with artwork by Betty Goodwin] (Delirium Press, 2005)

The Fruit Man and Other Poems [with artwork by J.R. Carpenter (WithWords Press, 2008)

Criticism

Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century [edited with Todd Swift] (Vehicule Press, 2007)

Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms (Ashgate Publishing, 2008)

Recordings

O Glee (Urban Myth Recordings)

Mr. Fedora (Urban Myth Recordings)