Jono Borden is a Canadian poet whose range extends raucously beyond his country’s sedate landscape in global pursuit of waking readers with his visceral vigour, shouting verse philosophical, transgressive, and lyrical.
Melding character-driven commentary of the contemporary condition with an appropriation of historical meter and rhyme, Jono’s unapologetic narrative has been getting him noticed.
George Elliott Clarke hails him as “brazen,” going so far as to compare Borden to Byron, Blake, Laforgue, Dylan, Cohen, and even Hendrix; likening him to a “great, rock songsmith,” saying of Jono, “Dude’s got guts!”
A defiant individualist whose DIY ethic lends an innate and subversive “punk rock” vibe to his work, Borden continually struts the boundary between “high” and “low” art, seeking to blur the two.
He published his first book, Simple Simony, in 2013 and wrote Isaac & Iskandar after seeing a lavishly illustrated Persian manuscript depicting Alexander the Great (Eskandar) visiting Mecca.
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masculinity, poetry, sexuality, celebrity, occult, psychology, rebellion, scandal, adventure, biography, fame, libertine, magic, spirituality, Bibliotheca Ionathani Bordenii, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, visionary & metaphysical, Gothic fiction, Hydra, Iran, Islam, Judaism, Language arts, Los Angeles, Middle EastPlaces
United States, Canada, Los Angeles, France, Halifax, London, Paris, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, New York, Nova Scotia, Venice, Aberdeen, Albania, Alexandria, Athens, Atlantic Ocean, Berlin, Boston, Constantinople, Cornwallis, Dardanelles, Edinburgh, EgyptPeople
George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824), Ali Pasha of Janina (1741-1822), Annabella Noel Byron Byron Baroness, August Ada King Lovelace Countess of (1815-1852), Augusta Leigh (1784-1851), Borden family, Caroline Lamb Lady (1785-1828), Catherine Gordon Byron (1765-1811), Clara Allegra Byron (1817-1822), Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (1798-1879), Douglas Kinnaird (1788-1830), Jean-François Champollion, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), John Byron (1757-1791), John Cam Hobhouse Broughton Baron (1786-1869), John Hanson (1755-1841), John Keats (1795-1821), John Murray (1778-1843), John William Polidori (1795-1821), Jono Borden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marguerite Gardiner Blessington Countess of (1789-1849), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821)Time
21st Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 1788-1824, 17th Century, 2009-2010, 2010-2023, 2021, 20th Century, Regency EraID Numbers
- OLID: OL7227063A
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