2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology A Selection of the Shortlist
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Biografisk notat
IAN WILLIAMS is the author of seven books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Raymound Souster Award, and a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Williams is a professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Creative Writing program. SARAH HOWE is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia (2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She held fellowships at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, and University College London before recently taking up a lectureship in poetry at King’s College London. Born in Kansas in 1979, BEN LERNER is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Münster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. This is his first novel.The Griffin Poetry Prize is a rich tribute to an art form largely and stupidly ignored by the public . . . an annual report on the state of the poetry nation.
Globe and Mail
The world’s premier international poetry prize.
Maclean’s
Already of the first calibre — a great shortlist, great judges, great trustees, great intent.
National Post
The Olympics of poetry.
Toronto Life
The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Griffin Poetry Prize finalist.
Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year, the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.
BUZZWORTHY ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- The announcement of the international and Canadian shortlists (in April, Poetry Month), the readings by the shortlisted poets (in early June), and announcement of the two $65,000 prize winners at a gala event (on the evening following the shortlist readings) generate considerable buzz around the Griffin Poetry Prize and interest in all the shortlisted poets’ work. The shortlist is announced April 10th, 2018, and the winners are announced June 7th, 2018.
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED:
- The release of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist anthology is an annual event awaited with anticipation by poetry lovers and readers.
PRESTIGIOUS:
- The book fulfills Anansi’s mandate to display the best Canadian poets alongside the best international poets. It reinforces our position as the premier publisher of poetry in Canada.