2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners Announcement Film
This short film celebrates our 2020 shortlisted poets and announces the International and Canadian winners of the prize....
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
...his writing practice, the miss-shapings of trauma and healing he found in poetry, his difficult migration from Nigeria to North America, and how his poems document the strife circumstances of...
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Douglas Kearney
In this exclusive interview with CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize international winner Douglas Kearney delves into how hip-hop and Black vernacular traditions have shaped his poetry, the impact...
2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners Announcement Film
This film features our 2022 finalists reading poems from each of their shortlisted collections. At the end of the film, we reveal the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize International and Canadian...
Ian Williams interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
...interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian Finalist Tolu Oloruntoba discusses, among other things, the key role of observation in his practice, the need to document...
Ian Williams interviews Liz Howard
Writing this letter enabled me to grapple with the grief and the immensity of the circumstances that I found myself in. Liz Howard In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian...
Ian Williams interviews David Bradford
I was never too keen on writing about family, but there was an element of coming back to poetry a number of years ago that started to unlock all of...