Shane Rhodes is the author of five books of poetry including his most recent X (which created poetry from Canada’s post-confederation treaties), and Err (a finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award). His poetry has won an Alberta Book Award, two Lampman-Scott Awards, the P. K. Page Founder’s Award for Poetry and a National Magazine Gold Award. Shane is the poetry editor for Arc, Canada’s national poetry magazine, and is the 2013 Queensland Poet-in-Residence.