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Dionne Brand has won the Griffin Poetry Prize for Ossuaries. by D - Thursday, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:38am

Dionne Brand has won the Griffin Poetry Prize for her narrative poem Ossuaries.

Brand won the $65,000 prize, Canada's richest poetry prize and the world's largest prize for a single poetry collection in English, at a gala in Toronto Wednesday night.

American poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg won the international prize for Heavenly Questions.

Categories: Awards
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Winner of the 2011 Griffin Prize for Canadian Poetry. Dionne Brand's hypnotic, urgent long poem - her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and idea...

 






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