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Announcing the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist

...languages, submitted by 236 publishers from 16 different countries. The two winners, to be announced via our social media channels (website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram) on Wednesday, June 15,...

August Kleinzahler – 2014 Awards

August Kleinzahler Opens the 2014 Awards Ceremony Prizes are great: a luxurious fun-filled-all expenses paid holiday for two in Mazatlan, Mexico – c’mon down. A La-Z Boy Luxury Lift Power...

Pura López Colomé – 2013 Awards

...instant, or the past seen from it. Naturally, I should add, within the framework of huge commercial interests, as well as cybernetic and ephemeral components, also very characteristic of this...

Glyn Maxwell – 2010 Awards

...in the world of poetry, a good time is a curious thing, it never comes at you in the way you expect it. Take this, for example. Dear Glyn, please come...

Carolyn Forché – 2009 Reykjavik

...are not philosophical poems,” he said, “they think with images.” His compatriot, Zbigniew Herbert echoes this observation: “I avoid any commentary I keep a tight hold on my emotions I...

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...
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