Griffin Poetry Prize announces Canadian and International shortlists
Date: April 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The Griffin Trust has announced the 2007 shortlists for both their Canadian and International poetry prices. The $100,000 (Canadian) poetry prize is among the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world and is awarded annually for the best books of poetry published in English in the previous year.
CANADIAN SHORTLIST
Airstream Land Yacht
by Ken Babstock
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You can read more about Airstream Land Yacht at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Strike/Slip
by Don McKay
In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of planetary dwelling with the rickety contraption of language, and to register the stress, sheer and strain — but also the astonishment — engendered by that necessary failure. …
You can read more about Strike/Slip at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Ontological Necessities
by Priscila Uppal
Written with the verve of the uninhibited artist but with a clarity of thought and expression more akin to the scientist or scholar, these poems investigate the emotional and philosophical struggles of contemporary life. Often sparked by the horrors depicted in today’s news, the poems combine surrealist images with spare and lyrical language to grapple with an increasingly absurd world. The most ambitious piece in the collection is a radical, post-9/11 translation of the Anglo-Saxon elegy The Wanderer, and other poems include “Don Quixote, You Sure Can Take One Helluva Beating,” “Film Version of My Hatred,” “Never Held a Gun,” and “The Romantic Impulse Hits the Schoolyard.” …
You can read more about Ontological Necessities at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
INTERNATIONAL SHORTLIST
Tramp in Flames
by Paul Farley
‘A book of astonishing variety and range and no little emotional bravery, “Tramp in Flames” shows Farley rapidly becoming one of the most unfailingly interesting writers of any genre, and definitive English voices of the age.’ …
You can read more about Tramp in Flames at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Salvation Blues
by Rodney Jones
‘This expansive and accessible collection presents one hundred choice poems, including twenty-four bold new pieces, from one of America’s “best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets” (Poetry). In the tradition of William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson, Rodney Jones conjures an America that betrays stereotyping. Playing the tension between history and modernity, his poems arise where, as James Dickey put it, “the agrarian and industrial civilizations stand face to face, equally bewildered.”‘ …
You can read more about Salvation Blues at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Ooga-Booga: Poems
by Frederick Seidel
‘From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man.’ …
You can read more about Ooga-Booga: Poems at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Scar Tissue
by Charles Wright
‘In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality–”thing is not an image”–but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject–language and “the ghost of god.” And in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, “something un-ordinary persists.”‘
You can read more about Scar Tissue at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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