Paul Vermeersch

Paul Vermeersch is a Canadian poet. He was born in Mississauga in 1973, and grew up in Southwestern Ontario.

His first collection, Burn (2000), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. His second and third collections, The Fat Kid (2002) and Between the Walls (2005), have both garnered critical praise.

From 1998 to 2003, Paul Vermeersch organized the reading series at the I.V. Lounge in downtown Toronto, hosting authors from across North America, and during that time he edited the anthology The I.V. Lounge Reader (2001) for Insomniac Press. Since 2002 he has been the poetry editor for Insomniac Press. He lives in Toronto.

Bibliography

• Burn, ECW Press, 2000
• The Fat Kid, ECW Press, 2002
• The I.V. Lounge Reader (anthology), Insomniac Press, 2001
• Between the Walls, McClelland and Stewart, 2005

See also

• Canadian poetry
• Canadian literature