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Don Mckay – 2009 Reykjavik

...Rocks and thoughts about rocks, as well as fieldwork connected with this, formed the basis of my latest books. When I was kid, I spent much time camping on the...

James Wood – 2009 Awards

...reviewing Pinsky, for that would seem, commercially speaking, like the master dressing his own valet.) Pinsky said that some of Leonard’s prose had the compression of verse, then asked the...

Paul Farley – 2008 Awards

...them, they need to come into the light. It completes them. I’ve never been interested in ‘writing for the drawer’, in stashing the work under the bed with the grey...

Matthew Rohrer – 2007 Awards

...almost infinitude of smaller communities, and it is in these little communities – like Shelley and Byron in their little boat – it is in these communities that the work...

Simon Armitage – 2006 Awards

...– as Sylvia Legris commented last night – the set for the next remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A chocolate fountain bubbled freely over by the dance floor and...

August Kleinzahler – 2005 Awards

...in reading and trying to understand it, or understanding it so far as having something sensible to say about it come exam time? I received a flyer from Comcast Cable...

Judges for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Announced

...like to download an entry form, visit our Submission Rules page. For further information, please contact: Ruth Smith Executive Director info@griffinpoetryprize.com (905) 618 0420 Download press release | Download photos...