Jordan Scott (born May 8, 1978) is a Canadian poet, who won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize in 2018.^[1]

Scott's first book of poetry, Silt, was published in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2006.^[2] He followed up in 2008 with Blert, a collection of poetry inspired by his lifelong struggle with stuttering.^[3]

In 2013, Scott and Stephen Collis collaborated on Decomp, a book which combined prose poetry with photography.^[4] In 2015 he was granted access to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, spending five days exploring the facility and publishing the multimedia work Clearance Process in 2016 to document his visit.^[5]

His 2020 children's book, I Talk Like a River, was named as Best Children's Book of the Year Award for 2020 by Publishers Weekly,^[6] and was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize.^[7]

Works

• Silt (2005)
• Blert (2008)
• Decomp (2013)
• Clearance Process (2016)
• Night & Ox (2017)
• I Talk Like a River (2020) illustrated by Sydney Smith
  • German: Ich bin wie der Fluss (2021)
• My Baba's garden (2023) illustrated by Sydney Smith

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