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Overview
Royalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.
Shortlist announced: April 11, 2017Readings: June 7, 2017Prizes awarded: June 8, 2017
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781487002329 |
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| Publisher: | House of Anansi Press |
| Publication date: | 06/13/2017 |
| Series: | Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology Series , #2017 |
| Pages: | 120 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
JOAN NAVIYUK KANE is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, and Milk Black Carbon, which is forthcoming in the Pitt Poetry Series. Her awards include the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and the School for Advanced Research. Kane graduated from Harvard College, where she was a Harvard National Scholar, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of a graduate Writing Fellowship. Inupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, she raises her sons in Anchorage, Alaska, and is MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
GEORGE SZIRTES was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee with his parents and younger brother following the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He grew up in London and trained as a painter in Leeds and London. He is the author of some fifteen books of poetry, roughly the same of translation from Hungarian, and a few miscellaneous other books. His first, The Slant Door was joint winner of the Faber Memorial Prize. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Reel, and was shortlisted for the prize for The Burning of the Books and for Bad Machine. His other prizes include the Cholmondeley Award, and the Bess Hokin Prize in the USA. Bloodaxe Books published his New and Collected Poems in 2008. It was listed in The Independent as one of the Books of the Year. His translations from Hungarian have won international prizes, including the Best Translated Book Award in the USA for László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango and his latest book for children, In the Land of the Giants won the CLPE Prize for best collection of poetry for children. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in the U.K. and of the Szécheny Academy of Arts and Letters in Hungary. He is married to painter Clarissa Upchurch and recently retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia.
Table of Contents
Preface Sue Goyette xi
International Shortlist
World of Made and Unmade Jane Mead
The third time my mother fell 5
Outside her window the trees 6
How will you spend your courage 7
In my dream my mother comes with me 8
My mother's every exhale is 9
On the phone, my brother Whit 10
Silvia asks whether I ever feel 11
Her ashes blow off 12
In the phone photograph 13
In Praise of Defeat Translated From the French Written By Abdellatif Laâbi Donald Nicholson-Smith
Good Morning Sun of My Land 17
From Skinned Alive 23
The Wolves 25
From My Dear Double 27
Falling Awake Alice Oswald
A Short Story of Falling 31
Flies 32
Cold Streak 33
Slowed-Down Blackbird 34
Sz 35
From Tithonus 36
Say Something Back Denise Riley
From A Part Song i-v 41
'The eclipse' 44
Orphic 45
Percy's Relique; on the Death of John Hall's Peacock 46
An awkward lyric 47
Never to disinter the pink companion 48
Canadian Shortlist
Injun Jordan Abel
a-c 53
h-k 56
Notes 1-3 60
Notes 15 63
Violet Energy Ingots Hoa Nguyen
Autumn 2012 Poem 67
Haunted Sonnet 68
January 69
Machiavelli Notes 70
First Flowers 71
After the Murder Ballad 72
Torn 73
Silvija Sandra Ridley
From Farther / Father 77
From Clasp 82
From Dirge 83
In Praise of the Healer 86
The Poets 89
The Judges 93
Acknowledgements 95
What People are Saying About This
I am very pleased to have been able to help with the inception of this important prize. Poetry is at the heart of language; it’s good to see it given the recognition it deserves.