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Cook, Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Cook was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
He is a Canadian poet, translator, and educator. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A. in Literary Studies) and Carleton University (M.A. in Comparative Literature). His poems and translations have appeared widely in such journals as The Antigonish Review, Descant, Matrix, Fiddlehead and Pottersfield Portfolio, and in the anthologies of Atlantic Canadian poetry, Landmarks (2001) and Coastlines (2002). His essays, reviews and interviews have been published in Books in Canada and in The Danforth Review, an online journal, where he was a poetry editor for five years. Cook is the author of the collections of poems “Postscript” (2004) and "Afterwords" (2018). He has been teaching in the English Department of John Abbott College in Montreal since 1996. Cook resides in Sainte Adèle, Quebec.