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Griffin Poetry Prize
Awarded forCanadian and International awards for poetry written in or translated into English
CountryCanada
Presented byGriffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and Scott Griffin
First award2001; 24 years ago (2001)
Websitewww.griffinpoetryprize.com

The Griffin Poetry Prize is a Canadian poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.

Before 2022, two separate awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language.[1] In 2022, the two awards were consolidated into a single international prize of CAD$130,000.[2] Shortlisted poets are awarded CAD$10,000, and a Lifetime Recognition Award comes with an award of CAD$25,000.

Concurrently with the merger, the Griffin Poetry Prize also introduced a juried Canadian First Book Prize to honor the year's best debut book by a Canadian poet.[3]

History

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In April 2000, Scott Griffin started the Griffin Trust to raise public awareness of the crucial role poetry plays in society's cultural life. Griffin served as its chairman, with board of trustees Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson, and David Young. In June 2004, Carolyn Forché joined the board. New trustees have been named over the years: in 2014, Karen Solie, Colm Tóibín, and Mark Doty; in 2016, Jo Shapcott and Marek Kazmierski; in 2018, Ian Williams; and in 2020, Sarah Howe. Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson, Jo Shapcott and Colm Tóibín have assumed the role of trustees emeriti.

The Trust created the Griffin Poetry Prize with the aim of helping to introduce contemporary collections of poetry to the public's imagination. Eligible collections of poetry must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the prior year. Submissions must come from publishers only. Originally, the award was two annual prizes of CAD$40,000 each for collections of poetry published in English during the preceding year.[4] One prize was to go to a living Canadian poet, the other to a living poet from any country, which could include Canada as well.

Among the trustees’ responsibilities is to select each year’s judges, who select a shortlist announced in April, National Poetry Month. The shortlisted poets then gather for an evening of public readings in May or June; the following evening, the winners are announced and all the poets feted.

In 2010, the total amount of the annual prizes was doubled from CAD$100,000 to CAD$200,000 in recognition of the prize’s tenth anniversary.[5][6] The increased amount of CAD$200,000 was awarded as follows: CAD$10,000 to each of seven shortlisted poets—four international and three Canadian—for their participation in the shortlist readings. The two winners, announced the next evening at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards, were given CAD$65,000 each, for a total of CAD$75,000 that included the CAD$10,000 awarded the previous evening.[5]

Selections from the shortlisted works are gathered annually in The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology,[7] typically edited by one of that year's judges. In 2019, House of Anansi Press partnered with the National Network for Equitable Library Services (NNELS) to offer the anthology in print and digital Braille editions.[8]

The Griffin Trust has championed other initiatives. In November 2010, Scott Griffin announced Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie, a bilingual recitation contest for high school students across Canada.[9][10] Other projects have included funding a statue in tribute to poet Al Purdy,[11] participation in international poetry festivals, and donations of poetry books to organizations such as the Correctional Service of Canada, the Scottish Poetry Library, a rebuilt Slave Lake Public Library (which was destroyed in a wildfire in 2011), and other libraries, schools, and colleges.[12]

In 2022, Griffin Poetry Prize officials announced that the Canadian and international awards would be consolidated into a single award of CAD$130,000.[13] Founder Scott Griffin said he originally believed that Canadian poets needed a separate category, but "now that a lot of Canadians have been recognized in the poetry world, we felt it was time they had to compete on the international stage with everybody else". The trust also announced a new prize: CAD$10,000 for a debut work of Canadian poetry.[2] Critics from within Canadian poetry expressed concern about loss of opportunities "given the role the award played in securing grants and jobs".[14] For instance, Alicia Elliot criticized the timing of the change, considering it happened "in the midst of a rather remarkable run for Black poets, Indigenous poets and poets of colour nominated for the Canadian portion" of the prize, and suggested the change implied that Canadian literature "is only relevant and worthwhile if it is being praised internationally."[15]

In April 2023, Scott Griffin gave an endowment to the Writers' Trust of Canada to expand the prize package for what is now the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.[16]

Honorees and judges

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2000s

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Griffin Poetry Prize winners, finalists, and judges, 2001-2009
Year Category Poet Title Result Ref.
2001[note 1] Canada Anne Carson Men in the Off Hours Winner [17]
Robert Bringhurst Nine Visits to the Mythworld Finalist
Don McKay Another Gravity Finalist
International Nikolai B. Popov and Heather McHugh (trans.) Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan Winner
Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (trans.) Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai Finalist
Fanny Howe Selected Poems Finalist
Les Murray Learning Human Finalist
2002[note 2] Canada Christian Bök Eunoia Winner [18][19]
Erín Moure Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person Finalist
Karen Solie Short Haul Engine Finalist
International Alice Notley Disobedience Winner
Victor Hernández Cruz Maraca Finalist
Christopher Logue Homer: War Music Finalist
Les Murray Conscious and Verbal Finalist
2003[note 3] Canada Margaret Avison Concrete and Wild Carrot Winner
Dionne Brand thirsty Finalist
P. K. Page Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New Finalist
International Paul Muldoon Moy Sand and Gravel Winner
Kathleen Jamie Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980–1994 Finalist
Gerald Stern American Sonnets: poems Finalist
C. D. Wright Steal Away: selected and new poems Finalist
2004[note 4] Canada Anne Simpson Loop Winner
Di Brandt Now You Care Finalist
Leslie Greentree go-go dancing for Elvis Finalist
International August Kleinzahler The Strange Hours Travelers Keep Winner
Suji Kwock Kim Notes From the Divided Country Finalist
David Kirby The Ha-Ha Finalist
Louis Simpson The Owner of the House Finalist
2005[note 5] Canada Roo Borson Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida Winner
George Bowering Changing on the Fly Finalist
Don McKay Camber Finalist
International Charles Simic Selected Poems: 1963–2003 Winner
Fanny Howe On the Ground Finalist
Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus Finalist
Matthew Rohrer A Green Light Finalist
2006[note 6] Canada Sylvia Legris Nerve Squall Winner
Phil Hall An Oak Hunch Finalist
Erín Moure Little theatres Finalist
International Kamau Brathwaite Born to Slow Horses Winner
Michael Hofmann (trans.) Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems fby Durs Grünbein Finalist
Michael Palmer Company of Moths Finalist
Elizabeth Winslow (trans.) The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail Finalist
Lifetime Recognition Robin Blaser Winner
2007[note 7] Canada Don McKay Strike/Slip Winner
Ken Babstock Airstream Land Yacht Finalist
Priscila Uppal Ontological Necessities Finalist
International Charles Wright Scar Tissue Winner
Paul Farley Tramp in Flames Finalist
Rodney Jones Salvation Blues Finalist
Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga Finalist
2008[note 8] Canada Robin Blaser The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser Winner [20]
Robert Majzels and Erín Moure (trans.) Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard Finalist
David McFadden Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden Finalist
International John Ashbery Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems Winner
Elaine Equi Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems Finalist
Clayton Eshleman (trans.) The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Cesar Vallejo Finalist
David Harsent Selected Poems 1969–2005 Finalist
Lifetime Recognition Ko Un Winner [21]
2009[note 9] Canada A. F. Moritz The Sentinel Winner
Kevin Connolly Revolver Finalist
Jeramy Dodds Crabwise to the Hounds Finalist
International C.D. Wright Rising, Falling, Hovering Winner
Mick Imlah The Lost Leader Finalist
Derek Mahon Life on Earth Finalist
Dean Young Primitive Mentor Finalist
Lifetime Recognition Hans Magnus Enzensberger Winner

2010s

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Griffin Poetry Prize winners, finalists, and judges, 2010-2019
Year Category Poet Title Result Ref.
2010[note 10] Canada Karen Solie Pigeon Winner [19]
Kate Hall The Certainty Dream Finalist
P. K. Page Coal and Roses Finalist
International Eilean Ni Chuilleanain The Sun-fish Winner
John Glenday Grain Finalist
Louise Glück A Village Life Finalist
Susan Wicks (trans.) Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau Finalist
Lifetime Recognition Adrienne Rich Winner
2011[note 11] Canada Dionne Brand Ossuaries Winner [22]
Suzanne Buffam The Irrationalist Finalist [23]
John Steffler Lookout Finalist [23]
International Gjertrud Schnackenberg Heavenly Questions Winner [22]
Seamus Heaney Human Chain Finalist [23]
Khaled Mattawa (trans.) Adonis: Selected Poems by Adunis Finalist [23]
Philip Mosley (trans.) The Book of the Snow from the French by Francois Jacqmin Finalist [23]
Lifetime Recognition Yves Bonnefoy Winner
2012[note 12] Canada Ken Babstock Methodist Hatchet Winner
Phil Hall Killdeer Finalist [24]
Jan Zwicky Forge Finalist [24]
International David Harsent Night Winner
Yusef Komunyakaa The Chameleon Couch Finalist [24]
Sean O'Brien November Finalist [24]
Joanna Trzeciak (trans.) Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz Finalist [24]
Lifetime Recognition Seamus Heaney Winner
2013[note 13] Canada David McFadden What's the Score? Winner [25]
James Pollock Sailing to Babylon Finalist [26]
Ian Williams Personals Finalist [26]
International Fady Joudah (trans.) The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan Winner [25]
Jennifer Maiden Liquid Nitrogen Finalist [26]
Alan Shapiro Night of the Republic Finalist [26]
Brenda Shaughnessy Our Andromeda Finalist [26]
2014[note 14] Canada Anne Carson Red Doc> Winner [27]
Susan Goyette Ocean Finalist [28]
Anne Michaels Correspondences Finalist [28]
International Brenda Hillman Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire Winner [27]
Rachael Boast Pilgrim's Flower Finalist [28]
Carl Phillips Silverchest Finalist [28]
Mira Rosenthal (trans.) Colonies by Tomasz Różycki Finalist [28]
Lifetime Recognition Adelia Prado Winner
2015[note 15] Canada Jane Munro Blue Sonoma Winner [29]
Shane Book Congotronic Finalist [30]
Russell Thornton The Hundred Lives Finalist [30]
International Michael Longley The Stairwell Winner [29]
Eleanor Goodman (trans.) Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni Finalist [30]
Marek Kazmierski (trans.) Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg Finalist [30]
Spencer Reece The Road to Emmaus Finalist [30]
Lifetime Recognition Derek Walcott Winner
2016[note 16] Canada Liz Howard Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Winner [31][32]
Per Brask and Patrick Friesen (trans.) Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka S. Gernes Finalist [33]
Soraya Peerbaye Tell: poems for a girlhood Finalist [33]
International Norman Dubie The Quotations of Bone Winner [31][32]
Joy Harjo Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Finalist [33]
Don Paterson 40 Sonnets Finalist [33]
Rowan Ricardo Phillips Heaven Finalist [33]
Lifetime Recognition Adam Zagajewski Winner [31]
2017[note 17] Canada Jordan Abel Injun Winner [34][35]
Hoa Nguyen Violet Energy Ingots Finalist [36]
Sandra Ridley Silvija Finalist [36]
International Alice Oswald Falling Awake Winner [34][35]
Jane Mead World of Made and Unmade Finalist [35][36]
Donald Nicholson-Smith (trans.) In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laabi Finalist [35][36]
Denise Riley Say Something Back Finalist [35][36]
Lifetime Recognition Frank Bidart Winner [34][37]
2018[note 18] Canada Billy-Ray Belcourt This Wound is a World Winner [38]
Aisha Sasha John I have to live. Finalist [39]
Donato Mancini Same Diff Finalist [39]
International Susan Howe Debths Winner [38]
Tongo Eisen-Martin Heaven is All Goodbyes Finalist [39]
Layli Long Soldier Whereas Finalist [39]
Natalie Shapero Hard Child Finalist [39]
Lifetime Recognition Ana Blandiana Winner [40]
2019[note 19] Canada Eve Joseph Quarrels Winner [41]
Dionne Brand The Blue Clerk Finalist [42]
Sarah Tolmie The Art of Dying Finalist [42]
International Don Mee Choi (trans.) Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon Winner [41]
Raymond Antrobus The Perseverance Finalist [42]
Daniel Borzutzky Lake Michigan Finalist [42]
Ani Gjika (trans.) Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku Finalist [42]
Lifetime Recognition Nicole Brossard Winner [43]

2020s

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Prior to 2023, the Griffin Poetry Prize was separated into two categories with prizes specifically for Canadian poets and another for international poets with each winner receiving $65,000.[19][44] However, in 2023, the Canadian-specific prize was eliminated with only one winner selected each year who wins $130,000.[19]

2020-2022

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Griffin Poetry Prize winners, finalists, and judges, 2020-2022
Year Category Poet Title Result Ref.
2020[note 20] Canada Kaie Kellough Magnetic Equator Winner [45]
Chantal Gibson How She Read Finalist
Doyali Islam heft Finalist
International Sarah Riggs (trans.) Time by Etel Adnan Winner [45]
Abigail Chabitnoy How to Dress a Fish Finalist
Sharon Olds Arias Finalist
Natalie Scenters-Zapico Lima :: Limón Finalist
2021[note 21] Canada Canisia Lubrin The Dyzgraphxst Winner [46][47]
Joseph A. Dandurand The East Side of It All Finalist [48]
Yusuf Saadi Pluviophile Finalist [48]
International Valzhyna Mort Music for the Dead and Resurrected Winner [46][47]
Victoria Chang Obit Finalist [48]
Srikanth Reddy Underworld Lit Finalist [48]
Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi (trans.) My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree by Yi Lei Finalist [48]
2022[note 22] Canada Tolu Oloruntoba The Junta of Happenstance Winner [49][50]
David Bradford Dream of No One But Myself Finalist [51]
Liz Howard Letters in a Bruised Cosmos Finalist [51]
International Douglas Kearney Sho Winner [49][50][52]
Sharon Dolin (trans.) Late to the House of Words by Gemma Gorga Finalist [51]
Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky (trans.) Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets Finalist [51]
Ed Roberson Asked What Has Changed Finalist [51]

2023-present

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Canadian First Book Prize
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Canadian First Book Prize winners
Year Poet Title Ref.
2023 Emily Riddle The Big Melt [3]
2024 Maggie Burton Chores [53]
2025 Dawn Macdonald Northerny [54]
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Griffin Poetry Prize winners, finalists, and judges, 2023–present
Year Poet Title Result Ref.
2023 Roger Reeves Best Barbarian Winner [55]
Iman Mersal (translated by Robyn Creswell) The Threshold Finalist [56]
Ada Limón The Hurting Kind
Susan Musgrave Exculpatory Lilies
Ocean Vuong Time Is a Mother
2024 George McWhirter Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Winner [57]
Jorie Graham To 2040 Finalist [58]
Ishion Hutchinson School of Instructions
Halyna Kruk (translated by Amelia M. Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk) A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
Ann Lauterbach Door
2025 Durs Grünbein (translated by Karen Leeder) Psyche Running Winner [59]
Nicolás Guillén (translated by Aaron Coleman) The Great Zoo Finalist [60]
Carl Phillips Scattered Snows, to the North
Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Brian Henry) Kiss the Eyes of Peace
Diane Seuss Modern Poetry

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The 2001 judges were Carolyn Forché, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Gord Downie.
  2. ^ The 2002 judges were Dionne Brand, Robert Creeley, and Michael Hofmann. The guest host at the awards ceremony was Albert Schultz.
  3. ^ The 2003 judges were Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, and Sharon Thesen. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Heather McHugh.
  4. ^ The 2004 judges were Billy Collins, Bill Manhire, and Phyllis Webb.
  5. ^ The 2005 judges were Simon Armitage, Erín Moure, and Tomaž Šalamun. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler.
  6. ^ The 2006 judges were Lavinia Greenlaw, Lisa Robertson, and Eliot Weinberger. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Simon Armitage.
  7. ^ The 2007 judges were John Burnside, Charles Simic, and Karen Solie. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Matthew Rohrer.
  8. ^ The 2008 judges were George Bowering, James Lasdun, and Pura López Colomé. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was Paul Farley.
  9. ^ The 2009 judges were Saskia Hamilton, Dennis O'Driscoll, and Michael Redhill. The guest speaker at awards ceremony was James Wood.
  10. ^ The 2010 judges were Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips. The guest speaker at the awards ceremony was Glyn Maxwell.
  11. ^ The 2011 judges were Tim Lilburn, Colm Tóibín, and Chase Twichell. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Jonathan Welstead, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
  12. ^ The 2012 judges were Heather McHugh, David O'Meara, and Fiona Sampson. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Alexander Gagliano, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
  13. ^ The 2013 judges were Suzanne Buffam, Mark Doty, and Wang Ping. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Kyla Kane, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at the awards ceremony was Pura López Colomé.
  14. ^ The 2014 judges were Robert Bringhurst, Jo Shapcott, and C.D. Wright. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Khalil Mair, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at the awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler.
  15. ^ The 2015 judges were Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe, and Piotr Sommer. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Ayo Akinfenwa, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
  16. ^ The 2016 judges were Alice Oswald, Tracy K. Smith, and Adam Sol. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Marie Foolchand, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
  17. ^ The 2017 judges were Susan Goyette, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and George Szirtes. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was David White, National Poetry In Voice recitation finalist.
  18. ^ The 2018 judges were Sarah Howe, Ben Lerner, and Ian Williams. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Hamish Marissen-Clark, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion, and the guest speaker at awards ceremony was August Kleinzahler, 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize winner.
  19. ^ The 2019 judges were Ulrikka S. Gernes, Kim Maltman, and Srikanth Reddy. The guest performer at the awards ceremony was Catricia Hiebert, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion.
  20. ^ The 2020 judges were Paula Meehan, Kei Miller, and Hoa Nguyen.
  21. ^ The 2021 judges were Ilya Kaminsky, Ales Steger, and Souvankham Thammavongsa.
  22. ^ The 2022 judges were Adam Dickinson, Valzhyna Mort, and Claudia Rankine.

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