• A City Thin as Paper

A City Thin as Paper

by Chris Pannell

October 6, 2026 | ISBN 978-1-998408-43-6 | 72 Pages

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On well-worn roads
rising up through cracks and potholes,
old ghosts hold forth – “The Map”

Award-winning Hamilton poet Chris Pannell moves back into the streets of the city he has long written about in this latest collection. With his keen eye for detail and willingness to engage with both the city’s beauty and its destitution, Pannell continues to show us that even the most ordinary moment can be etched with grace.

  • Chris Pannell’s A Nervous City (2013) won the Kerry Schooley Book Award from the Hamilton Arts Council. In 2010, his book Drive (2009) won the Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry and the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop and published two anthologies of work by that group. He is a former board member of the gritLIT Literary Festival and a former DARTS bus driver. He hosts and helps organize the monthly Hamilton reading series Lit Live. His latest book of poetry – Love, Despite the Ache – won the 2017 Literary Award for Poetry from the Hamilton Arts Council.

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  • Adventurize Your Summer!
  • Book Cover: Love, Despite the Ache, Chris Pannell
  • Drive
  • A Nervous City