The poet and educator Chris Banks discusses his recent collection Deepfake Serenade (Nightwood Editions, 2021), with Joseph Planta.

Deepfake Serenade by Chris Banks (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Deepfake Serenade

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

We continue marking National Poetry Month on the program with a conversation with the poet Chris Banks. He recently published a collection called Deepfake Serenade. It is his sixth poetry collection that is lauded for its precise language, and imagery that is fresh and revelatory. I ask Mr. Banks about writing, and the themes in this collection. Among them, the inevitable, loss, masculinity, and books. There’s more that we talk about in this conversation we taped a couple of weeks ago. Chris Banks is the author of five other poetry collections including Midlife Action Figure, and Bonfires, which was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for Poetry by the Canadian Authors Association in 2004. It was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. This book is published by Nightwood Editions. He joined me from Kitchener, Ontario. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Chris Banks; Mr. Banks, good morning.

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