Griffin Poetry Prize
| Griffin Poetry Prize | |
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| Awarded for | Canadian and International awards for poetry written in or translated into English |
| Country | Canada |
| Presented by | Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and Scott Griffin |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Website | http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com |
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language.[1]
Effective 2010, the annual Griffin Poetry Prize was doubled from CAD$100,000 to CAD$200,000 in recognition of the prize’s tenth anniversary.[2][3] The increased amount of $100,000 will be awarded as follows: CAD$10,000 to each of the seven shortlisted – four international and three Canadian – for their participation in the shortlist readings. The winners, announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards evening, will be awarded CAD$65,000 each, for a total of CAD$75,000 that includes the CAD$10,000 awarded at the readings the previous evening.[2]
Contents
1 History
2 Finalists, Judges and Lifetime Recognition Recipients
2.1 2001
2.2 2002
2.3 2003
2.4 2004
2.5 2005
2.6 2006
2.7 2007
2.8 2008
2.9 2009
2.10 2010
2.11 2011
2.12 2012
2.13 2013
2.14 2014
2.15 2015
2.16 2016
2.17 2017
2.18 2018
2.19 2019
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
In April 2000, Scott Griffin started the Griffin Trust to raise public awareness of the crucial role poetry plays in society's cultural life. Griffin served as its Chairman, with Trustees Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and David Young. In June 2004, Carolyn Forché joined the board of Trustees. New trustees have been named as follows: in 2014, Karen Solie, Colm Tóibín and Mark Doty, in 2016, Jo Shapcott and Marek Kazmierski, and in 2018, Ian Williams. Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and Colm Tóibín have assumed the role of Trustees Emeriti.
The Trust created the Griffin Poetry Prize with the aim of helping to introduce contemporary collections of poetry to the public's imagination. Originally, the award was two annual prizes of CAD$40,000 each, for collections of poetry published in English during the preceding year.[4] One prize for a living Canadian poet, the other to a living poet from any other country, which could include Canada. Qualified judges are selected annually by the Trustees. The prize shortlists are announced in April (National Poetry Month) every year. The shortlisted poets gather for an evening of public readings every May/June, and the winners are announced and all of the poets are feted the following evening.
Eligible collections of poetry must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the prior year. Submissions must come from publishers only.
In November 2010, Scott Griffin announced a new Griffin Trust initiative called Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie, a bilingual recitation contest for high school students across Canada.[5][6]
The Griffin Trust has championed other initiatives since its inception, including a statue in tribute to poet Al Purdy,[7] participation in international poetry festivals, and donations of poetry books to various organizations, including the Correctional Service of Canada, Scottish Poetry Library and other libraries, schools and colleges.[8]
Finalists, Judges and Lifetime Recognition Recipients
Winners are listed first and highlighted with bold.
2001
Canada:
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours[9]
Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
Don McKay, Another Gravity
International:
Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan[10]
Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
Les Murray, Learning Human
Judges:
- Carolyn Forché
- Dennis Lee
- Paul Muldoon
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Gord Downie
2002
Canada:
Christian Bök, Eunoia[11]
Erin Mouré, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
International:
- Alice Notley, Disobedience
Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal
Judges:
- Dionne Brand
- Robert Creeley
- Michael Hofmann
Guest host at awards ceremony: Albert Schultz
2003
Canada:
- Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Dionne Brand, thirsty
P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New
International:
- Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems
C. D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems
Judges:
- Michael Longley
- Sharon Olds
- Sharon Thesen
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Heather McHugh
2004
Canada:
- Anne Simpson, Loop
Di Brandt, Now You Care
Leslie Greentree, go-go dancing for Elvis
International:
- August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
Suji Kwock Kim, Notes From the Divided Country
David Kirby, The Ha-Ha
Louis Simpson, The Owner of the House
Judges:
- Billy Collins
- Bill Manhire
- Phyllis Webb
2005
Canada:
- Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
George Bowering, Changing on the Fly
Don McKay, Camber
International:
- Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963-2003
Fanny Howe, On the Ground
Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
Matthew Rohrer, A Green Light
Judges:
- Simon Armitage
- Erin Mouré
- Tomaž Šalamun
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler
2006
Canada:
- Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
Phil Hall, An Oak Hunch
Erin Mouré, Little theatres
International:
- Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
Michael Hofmann, translation of Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein
Michael Palmer, Company of Moths
Elizabeth Winslow, translation of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
Judges:
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- Lisa Robertson
- Eliot Weinberger
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Robin Blaser
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Simon Armitage
2007
Canada:
- Don McKay, Strike/Slip
Ken Babstock, Airstream Land Yacht
Priscila Uppal, Ontological Necessities
International:
- Charles Wright, Scar Tissue
Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames
Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues
Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga
Judges:
- John Burnside
- Charles Simic
- Karen Solie
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Tomas Tranströmer
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Matthew Rohrer
2008
Canada:
Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser[12]
Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, translation of Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard
David McFadden, Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden
International:
John Ashbery, Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
Elaine Equi, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems
Clayton Eshleman, translation of The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Cesar Vallejo
David Harsent, Selected Poems 1969-2005
Judges:
- George Bowering
- James Lasdun
- Pura Lopez Colome
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Ko Un[13]
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Paul Farley
2009
Canada:
- A. F. Moritz, The Sentinel
Kevin Connolly, Revolver
Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds
International:
- C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering
Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader
Derek Mahon, Life on Earth
Dean Young, Primitive Mentor
Judges:
- Saskia Hamilton
- Dennis O'Driscoll
- Michael Redhill
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: James Wood
2010
Canada:
- Karen Solie, Pigeon
Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream
P. K. Page, Coal and Roses
International:
- Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Sun-fish
John Glenday, Grain
Louise Gluck, A Village Life
Susan Wicks, translation of Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau
Judges:
- Anne Carson
- Kathleen Jamie
- Carl Phillips
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adrienne Rich
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Glyn Maxwell
2011
Canada:
- Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
Suzanne Buffam, The Irrationalist
John Steffler, Lookout
International:
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Heavenly Questions
Seamus Heaney, Human Chain
Khaled Mattawa, translation of Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis
Philip Mosley, translation of The Book of the Snow by Francois Jacqmin
Judges:
- Tim Lilburn
- Colm Tóibín
- Chase Twichell
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Yves Bonnefoy
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Jonathan Welstead, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
2012
Canada:
- Ken Babstock, Methodist Hatchet
Phil Hall, Killdeer
Jan Zwicky, Forge
International:
- David Harsent, Night
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
Sean O'Brien, November
Joanna Trzeciak, translation of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz
Judges:
- Heather McHugh
- David O'Meara
- Fiona Sampson
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Seamus Heaney
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Alexander Gagliano, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
2013
Canada:
- David McFadden, What's the Score?
James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon
Ian Williams, Personals
International:
- Fady Joudah, translation of The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan
Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda
Judges:
- Suzanne Buffam
- Mark Doty
- Wang Ping
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Kyla Kane, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Pura López Colomé
2014
Canada:
- Anne Carson, Red Doc>
Sue Goyette, Ocean
Anne Michaels, Correspondences
International:
- Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Rachael Boast, Pilgrim's Flower
Carl Phillips, Silverchest
Mira Rosenthal, translation of Colonies by Tomasz Rozycki
Judges:
- Robert Bringhurst
- Jo Shapcott
- C.D. Wright
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adelia Prado
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Khalil Mair, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler
2015
Canada:
- Jane Munro, Blue Sonoma
Shane Book, Congotronic
Russell Thornton, The Hundred Lives
International:
- Michael Longley, The Stairwell
Eleanor Goodman, translation of Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni
Marek Kazmierski, translation of Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg
Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
Judges:
- Tim Bowling
- Fanny Howe
- Piotr Sommer
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Derek Walcott
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Ayo Akinfenwa, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
2016
Canada:
Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent[14]
Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, translation of Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka S. Gernes
Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood
International:
Norman Dubie, The Quotations of Bone[14]
Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven
Judges:[14]
- Alice Oswald
- Tracy K. Smith
- Adam Sol
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adam Zagajewski.[14]
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Marie Foolchand, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
2017
Canada:
Jordan Abel, Injun [15]
Hoa Nguyen, Violet Energy Ingots
Sandra Ridley, Silvija
International:
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake [15]
Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade
Donald Nicholson-Smith, translation of In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laabi
Denise Riley, Say Something Back
Judges:
- Sue Goyette
- Joan Naviyuk Kane
- George Szirtes
Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Frank Bidart.[16]
Guest performer at awards ceremony: David White, National Poetry In Voice recitation finalist
2018
Canada:
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World
Aisha Sasha John, I have to live.
Donato Mancini, Same Diff
International:
- Susan Howe, Debths
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven is All Goodbyes
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
Natalie Shapero, Hard Child
Judges:
- Sarah Howe
- Ben Lerner
- Ian Williams
Lifetime Recognition Award (announced by the Griffin trustees) to Ana Blandiana.[17]
Guest performer at awards ceremony: Hamish Marissen-Clark, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion
Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler, 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize winner
2019
Judges:
- Ulrikka S. Gernes
- Kim Maltman
- Srikanth Reddy
Shortlist to be announced: April 9, 2019
Winners to be announced: June 6, 2019
See also
- Canadian poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
References
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^ New poetry award among literature’s most lucrative - Griffin Poetry Prize "makes a statement" by eclipsing Giller, G-G’s awards (September 9, 2000) - Ottawa Citizen
^ "Bilingual Poetry Recitation Contest Announced - Poetry In Voice".
^ Poetry gets cool for school: Scott Griffin launches Poetry in Voice (November 23, 2010) - National Post
^ Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet' Al Purdy (May 21, 2008) - The Canadian Press
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^ Anne Carson wins poetry prize (June 8, 2001) - CBC News
^ "Heather McHugh (poet) - USA - Poetry International".
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^ Another prize for B.C. poet Robin Blaser, and some advice (June 6, 2008) - Vancouver Sun
^ Robin Blaser and Ko Un Win Griffin Poetry Prizes! (June 5, 2008) - University of California Press blog
^ abcd "'This is a debut book – holy crap': Liz Howard takes the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize".
^ ab "Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize for Injun". Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^ "2017 – Frank Bidart". Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^ "2018 - Ana Blandiana". Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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