Adam Dickinson
Canadian poet
Adam Dickinson is a Canadian poet. He is most noted for his 2013 poetry collection The Polymers, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2013 Governor General's Awards, for the 2014 ReLit Award for Poetry and for the 2014 Trillium Book Award.
A graduate of the University of Ottawa, University of New Brunswick and the University of Alberta, he teaches English literature at Brock University.
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