The finalists for the Griffin Poetry Prize were announced this morning and include Toronto poet laureate Dionne Brand.
Three poets were named to the Canadian shortlist, and four to the international list. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most prestigious prize for poetry, and awards an international and Canadian winner $65,000 each. Every finalist also receives a cash award, in the amount of $10,000.
Brand was nominated for her collection Ossuaries. She is joined on the Canadian list by Suzanne Buffam, for The Irrationalist, and John Steffler, for Lookout.
This year's international finalists include Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain, Adonis for Adonis: Selected Poems (translated by Khaled Mattawa). François Jacqmin for The Book of the Snow (translated by Philip Mosley) and Gjertrud Schnackenberg for Heavenly Questions.
The winners will be announced June 1.
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Griffen Poetry Prize 2009
TORONTO – April 7, 2009 – Scott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry and David Young, trustee, today announced the Canadian and International shortlist for this year’s prize. The C$100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world, exemplifying the international spirit of the form. The prize is awarded annually for the two best books of poetry, including translations, published in English in the previous year.
Judges Saskia Hamilton, Dennis O'Driscoll and Michael Redhill each read 485 books of poetry, including 33 translations, received from 32 countries around the globe. The seven finalists – three Canadian and four International – will be invited to read in Toronto at the MacMillan Theatre on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The winners, who each receive C$50,000, will be announced on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at the ninth annual Griffin Poetry Prize Awards Evening.
Canadian Shortlist
Revolver • Kevin Connolly
House of Anansi Press
Crabwise to the Hounds • Jeramy Dodds
Coach House Books
The Sentinel • A. F. Moritz
House of Anansi Press
International Shortlist
The Lost Leader • Mick Imlah
Faber and Faber
Life on Earth • Derek Mahon (photo above)
The Gallery Press
Rising, Falling, Hovering • C. D. Wright
Copper Canyon Press
Primitive Mentor • Dean Young
University of Pittsburgh Press
The judges for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize are the distinguished writers and poets Saskia Hamilton (United States), Dennis O'Driscoll (Ireland) and Michael Redhill (Canada). Each year, the Griffin Poetry Prize publishes an anthology, a selection of poems from the shortlisted books, published by House of Anansi Press. Royalties from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Short lists announced for $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prizes
The Canadian Press
Published Saturday April 12th, 2008
TORONTO - Simon Fraser University professor emeritus Robin Blaser, considered to be one of North America's most outstanding poets of the postwar period, is in the running for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Now in its eighth year, the prize awards $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 to the best book of international poetry published in English the preceding year.
Blaser made the Canadian short list, announced this week in Toronto, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (University of California Press).
Montreal writer Robert Majzels and Calgary-born poet Erin Moure made the list for their English translation of Notebook of Roses and Civilization (Coach House Books). The book is by Montreal poet and novelist Nicole Brossard.
Rounding out the Canadian short list is Toronto author David McFadden for Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden (Insomniac Press/4 a.m. Books).
Four books are on the international shortlist: Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems from John Ashbery (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco); Elaine Equi's Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition, by Clayton Eshleman, translated from the Spanish, written by Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press); and Selected Poems 1969-2005 from David Harsent (Faber and Faber).
Published Saturday April 12th, 2008
TORONTO - Simon Fraser University professor emeritus Robin Blaser, considered to be one of North America's most outstanding poets of the postwar period, is in the running for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Now in its eighth year, the prize awards $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 to the best book of international poetry published in English the preceding year.
Blaser made the Canadian short list, announced this week in Toronto, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (University of California Press).
Montreal writer Robert Majzels and Calgary-born poet Erin Moure made the list for their English translation of Notebook of Roses and Civilization (Coach House Books). The book is by Montreal poet and novelist Nicole Brossard.
Rounding out the Canadian short list is Toronto author David McFadden for Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden (Insomniac Press/4 a.m. Books).
Four books are on the international shortlist: Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems from John Ashbery (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco); Elaine Equi's Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition, by Clayton Eshleman, translated from the Spanish, written by Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press); and Selected Poems 1969-2005 from David Harsent (Faber and Faber).
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