George McWhirter makes a Griffin shortlist otherwise devoid of Canadian names
Last year was the first under the new prize regime.
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Last year was the first under the new prize regime.
The approach to poetry and the world is tinged with surrealism and not a small dollop of humour
This list, selected by jurors A.F. Moritz (Canada), Jan Wagner (Germany), and Anne Waldman (U.S.), will not do much to mollify critics of the new prize regime.
Egg Poets is the collective name of a quintet of writers.
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
As a poet, Cayley is particularly good at juxtaposition often manifested as subtle or not-so-subtle shifts in tone and tenor.
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
The question of how closely the narrator of Xanax Cowboy cleaves to the poet is one of the overarching aspects of the book.
Haida Gwaii poet Susan Musgrave is one of only two Canadian authors of original works on the ten-book longlist for...
The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.