About Crispin Elsted
Born 1947. Crispin Elsted is a poet and typographer.
Crispin Elsted is a Canadian poet and publisher. He was born on May 31, 1947, to Dennis and Isabel Elsted. He is the co-founder, with his wife Jan Elsted, of the book-publishing company Barbarian Press. His poetry collection Climate and the Affections was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the Gerald Lampert Award
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Canadian poet and publisher
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Crispin Elsted was born in 1947.
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