Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Trust was created to serve and encourage excellence in poetry written in English anywhere in the world. The Griffin Trust is a Canadian initiative founded in April, 2000 by Scott Griffin, its Chairman, with Trustees Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and David Young. The purpose of The Griffin Trust is to raise public awareness of the crucial role poetry must play in society's cultural life.

The Griffin Trust’s support for poets, for poetry, and for the publishers of poetry includes two annual literary prizes worth $40,000 each. These prizes are awarded annually for collections of poetry published in English during the preceding year. One prize will go to a living Canadian poet, the other to a living poet from any other country, which may include Canada.



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Scar Tissue - trade paperback
By Charles Wright - $16.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize (International Category)In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and...

 

Strike/Slip - trade paperback
By Don Mckay - $17.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canadian Category).Winner of the 2007 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks t...

 

Nerve Squall - trade paperback
By Sylvia Legris - $16.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canadian Category).Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the ...

 

Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida - trade paperback
By Roo Borson - $16.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Governor General Literary Award for Poetry.Canadian Winner of the 2005 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to...

 

Loop - trade paperback
By Anne Simpson - $16.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canadian Category).Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground wit...

 

Men in the Off Hours - trade paperback
By Anne Carson - $17.95 - add to cart

Canadian Winner of the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize.In these poems and prose pieces, Anne Carson deftly deploys her signature play of opposites: classic and modern, cinema and print, narrative and ver...