Ben Phillips (poet)

Born in the United States, where he worked as a journalist, he settled in Toronto, Ontario in 1968. In Toronto he has owned and operated two antiquarian bookshops, established The Folks Upstairs Press and taught English as a second language (ESL) to students and professionals from Japan and South Korea.

Editor and co-founder of The Folks Upstairs Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in Canadian Author & Bookman, Catalyst (USA), North York Arts Council News, Pierian Spring, Poetry Toronto, Rolling Stone (USA), Midway Review (USA), Poetry W.L.U., Tower, West Coast Review, Watchwords, Waterways (USA) and many other periodicals.

• 1970:Flesh Candle, FUP Press, Toronto,
• 1977:Notes From Nowhere, The Folks Upstairs Press, Toronto,
• 1983:The Dead Leave Holes, Unfinished Monument Press, Toronto, Libraries this book has an entry in:

• National Library of Canada (last modified on 23 January 2008)

• 1984:Watching The Gibbous Moon, Pierian Press, Brandon, Manitoba,[1]

• 1983:The Toronto Collection, An Anthology of the New Toronto Poets, edited by Leslie Nutting, Manoeuvres Press, ISBN 0-919980-03-1
• 1984:Other Channels, An Anthology of New Canadian Poetry, edited by Shaunt Basmajian & Jones, League of Canadian Poets Associates, ISBN 0-9691646-0-2

• Library: National Library of Canada/ The dead leave holes Ben Phillips Publisher: Toronto : Unfinished Monument Press, c1983.ISBN 0920976190 Edition: $2,00 https://web.archive.org/web/20110604101318/http://isbndb.com/d/book/the_dead_leave_holes/library/167.html