Chris Pannell

Chris Pannell has published seven books of poetry; his latest is titled The Fragmentarium and Other Poems (2022). His collection A Nervous City (2013) won the Kerry Schooley Book Award from the Hamilton Arts Council. Love, Despite the Ache (2016), won Poetry Book of the Year from Hamilton Arts Council. Drive (2009) won the Canadian Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. Pannell is also the author of a set of three poetry broadsheets (Fractures, Subluxations, & Dislocations) which won the Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award in 1997.

He is a former DARTS bus driver, a former technical writer, and has hosted and helped run the Lit Live Reading Series in Hamilton for twenty years. Between 2015 and 2017 he edited the US academic journal The Oxfordian, an annual publication of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, that encourages discussion of the Shakespeare Authorship Question. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-length anthologies for the group.