Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
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 | www |
Before 2022, two separate awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language.[1] In 2022, the two awards were consolidated into a single international prize of CAD$130,000.[2] Shortlisted poets are awarded CAD$10,000, and a Lifetime Recognition Award comes with an award of CAD$25,000.
Concurrently with the merger, the Griffin Poetry Prize also introduced a juried Canadian First Book Prize to honor the year's best debut book by a Canadian poet.[3]
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, in 2018, Ian Williams and in 2020, Sarah Howe. Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson, Jo Shapcott 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 the poets are feted the following evening.
Each year, selections from the shortlisted works are gathered in The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology,[5] typically edited by one of that year's judges. In 2019, House of Anansi Press partnered with the National Network for Equitable Library Services (NNELS) to offer the anthology in print and digital Braille editions.[6]
Eligible collections of poetry must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the prior year. Submissions must come from publishers only.
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.[7][8] 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.[7]
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.[9][10]
The Griffin Trust has championed other initiatives since its inception, including a statue in tribute to poet Al Purdy,[11] participation in international poetry festivals, and donations of poetry books to various organizations, including the Correctional Service of Canada, Scottish Poetry Library, Slave Lake Public Library (which was destroyed in a wildfire in 2011) and other libraries, schools and colleges.[12]
Griffin Poetry Prize officials announced in 2022 that the Canadian and international awards would be consolidated into a single award of CAD$130,000.[13] Founder Scott Griffin, who originally believed that Canadian poets needed a separate category, said that "now that a lot of Canadians have been recognized in the poetry world, we felt it was time they had to compete on the international stage with everybody else". An award of CAD$10,000 for a debut work of Canadian poetry was also announced.[2] Critics from within Canadian poetry expressed concern about loss of opportunities "given the role the award played in securing grants and jobs".[14] Alicia Elliot critiqued the timing of this change happening, "in the midst of a rather remarkable run for Black poets, Indigenous poets and poets of colour nominated for the Canadian portion" of the prize, and suggests that this change implies that Canadian literature "is only relevant and worthwhile if it is being praised internationally."[15]
In April 2023, Griffin gave an endowment to the Writers' Trust of Canada to expand the prize package for what is now the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.[16]
Honorees and judges
2000s
Year | Category | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2001[note 1] | Canada | Anne Carson | Men in the Off Hours | Winner | [17] |
Robert Bringhurst | Nine Visits to the Mythworld | Finalist | |||
Don McKay | Another Gravity | Finalist | |||
International | Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh (trans.) | Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan | Winner | ||
Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (trans.) | Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai | Finalist | |||
Fanny Howe | Selected Poems | Finalist | |||
Les Murray | Learning Human | Finalist | |||
2002[note 2] | Canada | Christian Bök | Eunoia | Winner | [18][19] |
Erín Moure | Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person | Finalist | |||
Karen Solie | Short Haul Engine | Finalist | |||
International | Alice Notley | Disobedience | Winner | ||
Victor Hernández Cruz | Maraca | Finalist | |||
Christopher Logue | Homer: War Music | Finalist | |||
Les Murray | Conscious and Verbal | Finalist | |||
2003[note 3] | Canada | Margaret Avison | Concrete and Wild Carrot | Winner | |
Dionne Brand | thirsty | Finalist | |||
P. K. Page | Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New | Finalist | |||
International | Paul Muldoon | Moy Sand and Gravel | Winner | ||
Kathleen Jamie | Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980–1994 | Finalist | |||
Gerald Stern | American Sonnets: poems | Finalist | |||
C. D. Wright | Steal Away: selected and new poems | Finalist | |||
2004[note 4] | Canada | Anne Simpson | Loop | Winner | |
Di Brandt | Now You Care | Finalist | |||
Leslie Greentree | go-go dancing for Elvis | Finalist | |||
International | August Kleinzahler | The Strange Hours Travelers Keep | Winner | ||
Suji Kwock Kim | Notes From the Divided Country | Finalist | |||
David Kirby | The Ha-Ha | Finalist | |||
Louis Simpson | The Owner of the House | Finalist | |||
2005[note 5] | Canada | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | Winner | |
George Bowering | Changing on the Fly | Finalist | |||
Don McKay | Camber | Finalist | |||
International | Charles Simic | Selected Poems: 1963–2003 | Winner | ||
Fanny Howe | On the Ground | Finalist | |||
Michael Symmons Roberts | Corpus | Finalist | |||
Matthew Rohrer | A Green Light | Finalist | |||
2006[note 6] | Canada | Sylvia Legris | Nerve Squall | Winner | |
Phil Hall | An Oak Hunch | Finalist | |||
Erín Moure | Little theatres | Finalist | |||
International | Kamau Brathwaite | Born to Slow Horses | Winner | ||
Michael Hofmann (trans.) | Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems fby Durs Grünbein | Finalist | |||
Michael Palmer | Company of Moths | Finalist | |||
Elizabeth Winslow (trans.) | The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail | Finalist | |||
Lifetime Recognition | Robin Blaser | Winner | |||
2007[note 7] | Canada | Don McKay | Strike/Slip | Winner | |
Ken Babstock | Airstream Land Yacht | Finalist | |||
Priscila Uppal | Ontological Necessities | Finalist | |||
International | Charles Wright | Scar Tissue | Winner | ||
Paul Farley | Tramp in Flames | Finalist | |||
Rodney Jones | Salvation Blues | Finalist | |||
Frederick Seidel | Ooga-Booga | Finalist | |||
2008[note 8] | Canada | Robin Blaser | The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser | Winner | [20] |
Robert Majzels and Erín Moure (trans.) | Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard | Finalist | |||
David McFadden | Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden | Finalist | |||
International | John Ashbery | Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems | Winner | ||
Elaine Equi | Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems | Finalist | |||
Clayton Eshleman (trans.) | The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Cesar Vallejo | Finalist | |||
David Harsent | Selected Poems 1969–2005 | Finalist | |||
Lifetime Recognition | Ko Un | Winner | [21] | ||
2009[note 9] | Canada | A. F. Moritz | The Sentinel | Winner | |
Kevin Connolly | Revolver | Finalist | |||
Jeramy Dodds | Crabwise to the Hounds | Finalist | |||
International | C.D. Wright | Rising, Falling, Hovering | Winner | ||
Mick Imlah | The Lost Leader | Finalist | |||
Derek Mahon | Life on Earth | Finalist | |||
Dean Young | Primitive Mentor | Finalist | |||
Lifetime Recognition | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Winner |
2010s
Year | Category | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010[note 10] | Canada | Karen Solie | Pigeon | Winner | [19] |
Kate Hall | The Certainty Dream | Finalist | |||
P. K. Page | Coal and Roses | Finalist | |||
International | Eilean Ni Chuilleanain | The Sun-fish | Winner | ||
John Glenday | Grain | Finalist | |||
Louise Glück | A Village Life | Finalist | |||
Susan Wicks (trans.) | Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau | Finalist | |||
Lifetime Recognition | Adrienne Rich | Winner | |||
2011[note 11] | Canada | Dionne Brand | Ossuaries | Winner | [22] |
Suzanne Buffam | The Irrationalist | Finalist | [23] | ||
John Steffler | Lookout | Finalist | [23] | ||
International | Gjertrud Schnackenberg | Heavenly Questions | Winner | [22] | |
Seamus Heaney | Human Chain | Finalist | [23] | ||
Khaled Mattawa (trans.) | Adonis: Selected Poems by Adunis | Finalist | [23] | ||
Philip Mosley (trans.) | The Book of the Snow from the French by Francois Jacqmin | Finalist | [23] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Yves Bonnefoy | Winner | |||
2012[note 12] | Canada | Ken Babstock | Methodist Hatchet | Winner | |
Phil Hall | Killdeer | Finalist | [24] | ||
Jan Zwicky | Forge | Finalist | [24] | ||
International | David Harsent | Night | Winner | ||
Yusef Komunyakaa | The Chameleon Couch | Finalist | [24] | ||
Sean O'Brien | November | Finalist | [24] | ||
Joanna Trzeciak (trans.) | Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz | Finalist | [24] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Seamus Heaney | Winner | |||
2013[note 13] | Canada | David McFadden | What's the Score? | Winner | [25] |
James Pollock | Sailing to Babylon | Finalist | [26] | ||
Ian Williams | Personals | Finalist | [26] | ||
International | Fady Joudah (trans.) | The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan | Winner | [25] | |
Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Finalist | [26] | ||
Alan Shapiro | Night of the Republic | Finalist | [26] | ||
Brenda Shaughnessy | Our Andromeda | Finalist | [26] | ||
2014[note 14] | Canada | Anne Carson | Red Doc> | Winner | [27] |
Susan Goyette | Ocean | Finalist | [28] | ||
Anne Michaels | Correspondences | Finalist | [28] | ||
International | Brenda Hillman | Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire | Winner | [27] | |
Rachael Boast | Pilgrim's Flower | Finalist | [28] | ||
Carl Phillips | Silverchest | Finalist | [28] | ||
Mira Rosenthal (trans.) | Colonies by Tomasz Różycki | Finalist | [28] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Adelia Prado | Winner | |||
2015[note 15] | Canada | Jane Munro | Blue Sonoma | Winner | [29] |
Shane Book | Congotronic | Finalist | [30] | ||
Russell Thornton | The Hundred Lives | Finalist | [30] | ||
International | Michael Longley | The Stairwell | Winner | [29] | |
Eleanor Goodman (trans.) | Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni | Finalist | [30] | ||
Marek Kazmierski (trans.) | Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg | Finalist | [30] | ||
Spencer Reece | The Road to Emmaus | Finalist | [30] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Derek Walcott | Winner | |||
2016[note 16] | Canada | Liz Howard | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | Winner | [31][32] |
Per Brask and Patrick Friesen (trans.) | Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka S. Gernes | Finalist | [33] | ||
Soraya Peerbaye | Tell: poems for a girlhood | Finalist | [33] | ||
International | Norman Dubie | The Quotations of Bone | Winner | [31][32] | |
Joy Harjo | Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings | Finalist | [33] | ||
Don Paterson | 40 Sonnets | Finalist | [33] | ||
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Heaven | Finalist | [33] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Adam Zagajewski | Winner | [31] | ||
2017[note 17] | Canada | Jordan Abel | Injun | Winner | [34][35] |
Hoa Nguyen | Violet Energy Ingots | Finalist | [36] | ||
Sandra Ridley | Silvija | Finalist | [36] | ||
International | Alice Oswald | Falling Awake | Winner | [34][35] | |
Jane Mead | World of Made and Unmade | Finalist | [35][36] | ||
Donald Nicholson-Smith (trans.) | In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laabi | Finalist | [35][36] | ||
Denise Riley | Say Something Back | Finalist | [35][36] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Frank Bidart | Winner | [34][37] | ||
2018[note 18] | Canada | Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound is a World | Winner | [38] |
Aisha Sasha John | I have to live. | Finalist | [39] | ||
Donato Mancini | Same Diff | Finalist | [39] | ||
International | Susan Howe | Debths | Winner | [38] | |
Tongo Eisen-Martin | Heaven is All Goodbyes | Finalist | [39] | ||
Layli Long Soldier | Whereas | Finalist | [39] | ||
Natalie Shapero | Hard Child | Finalist | [39] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Ana Blandiana | Winner | [40] | ||
2019[note 19] | Canada | Eve Joseph | Quarrels | Winner | [41] |
Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | Finalist | [42] | ||
Sarah Tolmie | The Art of Dying | Finalist | [42] | ||
International | Don Mee Choi (trans.) | Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon | Winner | [41] | |
Raymond Antrobus | The Perseverance | Finalist | [42] | ||
Daniel Borzutzky | Lake Michigan | Finalist | [42] | ||
Ani Gjika (trans.) | Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku | Finalist | [42] | ||
Lifetime Recognition | Nicole Brossard | Winner | [43] |
2020s
Prior to 2023, the Griffin Poetry Prize was separated into two categories with prizes specifically for Canadian poets and another for international poets with each winner receiving $65,000.[19][44] However, in 2023, the Canadian-specific prize was eliminated with only one winner selected each year who wins $130,000.[19]
2020-2022
Year | Category | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2020[note 20] | Canada | Kaie Kellough | Magnetic Equator | Winner | [45] |
Chantal Gibson | How She Read | Finalist | |||
Doyali Islam | heft | Finalist | |||
International | Sarah Riggs (trans.) | Time by Etel Adnan | Winner | [45] | |
Abigail Chabitnoy | How to Dress a Fish | Finalist | |||
Sharon Olds | Arias | Finalist | |||
Natalie Scenters-Zapico | Lima :: Limón | Finalist | |||
2021[note 21] | Canada | Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | Winner | [46][47] |
Joseph A. Dandurand | The East Side of It All | Finalist | [48] | ||
Yusuf Saadi | Pluviophile | Finalist | [48] | ||
International | Valzhyna Mort | Music for the Dead and Resurrected | Winner | [46][47] | |
Victoria Chang | Obit | Finalist | [48] | ||
Srikanth Reddy | Underworld Lit | Finalist | [48] | ||
Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi (trans.) | My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree by Yi Lei | Finalist | [48] | ||
2022[note 22] | Canada | Tolu Oloruntoba | The Junta of Happenstance | Winner | [49][50] |
David Bradford | Dream of No One But Myself | Finalist | [51] | ||
Liz Howard | Letters in a Bruised Cosmos | Finalist | [51] | ||
International | Douglas Kearney | Sho | Winner | [49][50][52] | |
Sharon Dolin (trans.) | Late to the House of Words by Gemma Gorga | Finalist | [51] | ||
Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky (trans.) | Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets | Finalist | [51] | ||
Ed Roberson | Asked What Has Changed | Finalist | [51] |
Canadian First Book Prize
Year | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Emily Riddle | The Big Melt | Winner | [3] |
Griffin Poetry Prize
Year | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Roger Reeves | Best Barbarian | Winner | [53] |
Robyn Creswell (trans.) | The Threshold by Iman Mersal | Finalist | [54] | |
Ada Limón | The Hurting Kind | Finalist | ||
Susan Musgrave | Exculpatory Lilies | Finalist | ||
Ocean Vuong | Time is a Mother | Finalist |
Notes
- The 2001 judges were Carolyn Forché, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Gord Downie.
- The 2002 judges were Dionne Brand, Robert Creeley, and Michael Hofmann. The guest host at the awards ceremony was Albert Schultz.
- The 2003 judges were Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, and Sharon Thesen. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Heather McHugh.
- The 2004 judges were Billy Collins, Bill Manhire, and Phyllis Webb.
- The 2005 judges were Simon Armitage, Erín Moure, and Tomaž Šalamun. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler.
- The 2006 judges were Lavinia Greenlaw, Lisa Robertson, and Eliot Weinberger. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Simon Armitage.
- The 2007 judges were John Burnside, Charles Simic, and Karen Solie. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Matthew Rohrer.
- The 2008 judges were George Bowering, James Lasdun, and Pura López Colomé. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Paul Farley.
- The 2009 judges were Saskia Hamilton, Dennis O'Driscoll, and Michael Redhill. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was James Wood.
- The 2010 judges were Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips. The guest speaker at the awards ceremony was Glyn Maxwell.
- The 2011 judges were Tim Lilburn, Colm Tóibín, and Chase Twichell. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Jonathan Welstead, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
- The 2012 judges were Heather McHugh, David O'Meara, and Fiona Sampson. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Alexander Gagliano, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
- The 2013 judges were Suzanne Buffam, Mark Doty, and Wang Ping. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Kyla Kane, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at the awards ceremony was Pura López Colomé.
- The 2014 judges were Robert Bringhurst, Jo Shapcott, and C.D. Wright. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Khalil Mair, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at the awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler.
- The 2015 judges were Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe, and Piotr Sommer. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Ayo Akinfenwa, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
- The 2016 judges were Alice Oswald, Tracy K. Smith, and Adam Sol. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Marie Foolchand, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
- The 2017 judges were Susan Goyette, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and George Szirtes. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was David White, National Poetry In Voice recitation finalist.
- The 2018 judges were Sarah Howe, Ben Lerner, and Ian Williams. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Hamish Marissen-Clark, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler, 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize winner.
- The 2019 judges were Ulrikka S. Gernes, Kim Maltman, and Srikanth Reddy. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Catricia Hiebert, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
- The 2020 judges were Paula Meehan, Kei Miller, and Hoa Nguyen.
- The 2021 judges were Ilya Kaminsky, Ales Steger, and Souvankham Thammavongsa.
- The 2022 judges were Adam Dickinson, Valzhyna Mort, and Claudia Rankine.
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