Griffin Poetry Prize

Canada

• Griffin Poetry Prize a lucrative award for one Canadian and one foreign poet.
• Pat Lowther Award for the best volume of poetry
• Gerald Lampert Award for the best volume of poetry by a new author
• Governor General's Award for Poetry presented to one English language and one French language poet

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2004 See also: 2003 in literature, other events of 2004, 2005 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy to be read across the nation

New Books

• Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
• Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
• Song of Susannah - Stephen King
• - Chuck Palahniuk
• The Confession - Olen Steinhauer

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Canada:

• Winner:
• Anne Simpson, Loop
• Nominees:
• Di Brandt

  Di Brandt (born 1952) is an award-winning Canadian poet and literary critic.

  Biography

  Di Brandt was born in Winkler, Manitoba, and raised in Reinland, a conservative, separatist Mennonite village in Southern Manitoba. She left home and moved to Winnipeg at the age of 17. She received a BA from the University of Manitoba, and went on to a Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto and a PhD in English literature at the University of Manitoba.
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• Leslie Greentree, Go-go Dancing for Elvis

International:

• Winner:
• August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
• Nominees:
• Suji Kwock Kim, Notes From the Divided Country
• David Kirby, The Ha-Ha
• Louis Simpson, The Owner of the House

2003

See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• September 9 - Barnes & Noble, the largest American bookseller, announces that it will no longer sell downloadable electronic texts sometimes called e-books.
• Chuck Palahniuk reads his short story "Guts" to audiences while on tour to promote his novel Diary. Over 35 people faint while listening to the readings.

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Canada:

• Winner:
• Margaret Avison

  Margaret Avison (born April 23, 1918) is a Canadian poet.

  Avison was born in Galt, Ontario. She went to Victoria College and the University of Toronto. Aside from her poetry, she also worked as a librarian, editor, social worker, and speaker.

  Her first collection of poems was called The Winter Sun, which won the Governor General's Award. Her later collection, No Time, also won the Governor General's Award. In 2003 her work Concrete and Wild Carrot won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize.
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• Nominees:
• Dionne Brand

  Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women. She was born in Trinidad in 1953 and came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She is an active fighter for the rights of marginalized communities, especially blacks and women.

  Works:

  • Fore Day Morning - 1978
  • Earth Magic - 1979
  
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• P.K. Page

  Patricia Kathleen Page (born November 23, 1916) is a Canadian poet. She was born in England and moved with her family to Canada in 1919. She now lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

  Works:

  • The Sun and the Moon - 1944
  • The Metal and the Flower - 1954
  • Cry Ararat - 1967
  • The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions - 1973
  • Poems Selceted and New
  
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International:

• Winner:
• Paul Muldoon

  Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) is a Northern Irish poet. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant-rhyme. Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987; he teaches at Princeton University. He also holds the title of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Until recently Muldoon was often thought of as the second-most-eminent living Northern Irish poet, living in the shadow of his friend Seamus Heaney. Since he won the Pulitzer Prize his reputation has grown, and his work now clearly stands on its own merits.
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• Nominees:
• Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
• Gerald Stern Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is a United States poet. He work was widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life and a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has been given many prestigious awards for his writing, including a National Book Award for poetry in 1998. For many years he taught poetry writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Stern retired in 1995.
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• C.D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems

2002 See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• March 16, 2002: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.

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Canada:

• Winner:
• Christian Bök Christian Bök (born Book, 1966- ), is a Canadian experimental poet. His work Eunoia, a story that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters (that is, a lipogram), is one of the best-selling works of Canadian poetry. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry at Coach House Books, Eunoia won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His poetry has been featured in the lyrics of Norwegian artist Ulver's "A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP" (2003). Bök is also a sound poet, having performed an extremely condensed version of Kurt Schwitters'
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• Nominees:
• Erin Moure

  Erin Mouré (born 1952) is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec.

  Works:

  • Empire, York Street - 1979 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Wanted Alive - 1983
  • Domestic Fuel - 1985 (winner of the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Furious - 1988 (winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for poetry)
  • WSW - 1989
  • Sheepish Beaty, Civilian Love - 1992
  • The Green Word: Selected Poems: 1973-1992 - 1994
  • Search Procedures - 1996 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • A Frame of the Book - 1999
  • Pillage Laud - 1999
  • O Cidadán - 2002 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  
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• Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine

International:

• Winner:
• Alice Notley, Disobedience
• Nominees:
• Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
• Christopher Logue

  Christopher Logue is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He has also written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting in a number of films. He was also a long-term contributor to Private Eye magazine.

  Logue was born in Hampshire. His major poetical work is an ongoing project to render Homer's Iliad into a modernist idiom. This work is published in a number of small books, usually equating to two or three books of the original text. He has also published an autobiography called Prince Charming (1999).
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• Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

2001 See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, , hits movie theaters. The film is directed by Peter Jackson
• February 15 - Author Michael Crichton signed a new two book deal with HarperCollins Publishers reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.
• July 20 - London, England: After being found guilty of two counts of perjury and two of perverting the course of justice, a shackled Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare is taken to Belmarsh jail in a van, seated next to a convicted knife murderer.

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Canada:

• Winner:
• Anne Carson Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet and professor of history at McGill University. She has background in the classics and classical languages, as well as anthropology. She blends ideas and themes from those fields, often modernizing Greek myths or referring to ancient philosophy in her poems and essays. She has written several books, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, and non-fiction.
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• Nominees:
• Robert Bringhurst

  Robert Bringhurst (1946– ) is a Canadian author and poet who writes about native issues and typography. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

  Works

  Poetry

  • The Shipwright's Log – 1972
  • Cadastre – 1973
  • Eight Objects – 1975
  • Bergschrund – 1975
  • Tzuhalem's Mountain – 1982
  
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• Don McKay

  Don MacKay (born 1942) is a Canadian poet who lives in Victoria, British Columbia. His most acclaimed work is Another Gravity which won the 2000 Governor General's Award for poetry and was nominated for the lucrative Griffin Prize.

  Works:

  • Lependu - 1980
  • Lightning Ball Bait - 1980
  • Birding, Or Desire - 1983 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night - 1987
  • Night Field - 1991 (winner of the 1991 Governor General's Award for poetry)
  • Apparatus - 1997 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Another Gravity - 2000
  • Vis à Vis: Fieldnotes on Poetry and Wilderness - 2002 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  
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International:

• Winner:
• Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

  Paul Celan was the pseudonym of Paul Antschel (November 23, 1920 - April, 1970), who is considered one of the few major poets of the post-World War II era. He was born in Romania, lived in France, and wrote in German.

  Life

  Celan was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, in the region of Bukovina, then part of Romania. The city, which had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire until World War I, would later be annexed by the Soviet Union and today belongs to Ukraine, being called Chernivtsi.
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• Nominees:
• Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai

  Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet.

  Amichai was born in Germany, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He fought in the Israeli War of Independence as a young man, but became an advocate of peace and reconciliation in the region, working with Palestinian writers.

  He was 'discovered' in 1965 by Ted Hughes, who later translated several of Amichai's books.
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• Fanny Howe Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction.

  Howe was born in Boston. Her father was a lawyer and her mother, Mary Manning, was born in Dublin and wrote plays and acted for the Abbey Theatre before moving to the United States.

  Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets. Her books include: Selected Poems (2000), Forged (1999), Q (1998), One Crossed Out (1997), O'Clock (1995), and The End (1992). She has also published several volumes of short stories and books for young adults and The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003), a collection of essays. Her sister, Susan Howe, is also a poet.
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• Les Murray, Learning Human

External link

• http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/Official website]