Thursday, June 3, 2010

Griffin Winners Announced

The Griffin Poetry Prize winners were announced tonight at, what I hear, was a very swanky do in Toronto. As I mentioned before, the prize money went way up this year, which means the winners did better than ever and all the nominated poets came away with something (besides, of course, the honour of being short-listed).

Without further ado, the winners:
Karen Solie won the Canadian prize for her collection Pigeon (House of Anansi Press)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin won the International prize for her collection The Sun-fish (The Gallery Press)
Congratulations to both winners and to all the nominated poets, who were:
For the International Prize:
Grain by John Glenday (Picador)
A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau and translated by Susan Wicks (Arc Publications)
For the Canadian Prize:
The Certainty Dream by Kate Hall (Coach House Books)
Coal and Roses by P.K. Page (The Porcupine's Quill)
Image shown the cover of Karen Solie's Griffin Award-winning Pigeon.

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