Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's youngest and most lucrative poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin a wealthy owner of auto part manufacturing companies. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in English. Each winner receives $40 000 dollars.

2003

Canada:

Winner:
- Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Other Nominees:
- Dionne Brand, thirsty
- P.K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New

International:

Winner:
- Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel
Other NomineesL
- Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
- Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems
- C.D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems

2002

Canada:

Winner:
- Christian B�k, Eunoia
Other Nominees:
- Eirin Moure, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
- Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine

International:

Winner:
- Alice Notley, Disobedience
Other Nominees:
- Victor Hern�ndez Cruz, Maraca
- Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
- Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

2001

Canada:

Winner:
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
Other Nominees:
- Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
- Don McKay, Another Gravity

International:

Winner:

Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

Other Nominees:
- Les Murray, Learning Human

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