The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry supports poetry through several initiatives, focusing on the annual Griffin Poetry Prize, the world’s largest international poetry prize.
The prize is for a first-edition collection, written in, or translated into English, and published during the preceding year. The prize goes to a living poet or translator from any country, which may include Canada. Judges are selected annually by the trustees, and the prize is awarded in the spring of each year.
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Dionne Brand is one of the great poets of our time. Contemporary, relevant, immediate, her work speaks to the breaking news of our time, to the emotional brokennesses, the bewilderments, the enduring struggle against imperialisms that linger through our days; the deep need and hunger for real love and caring. And so much more. In Ossuaries, her tercets push line and word along, insistently. Her voice gives witness to the individual cry. And she also reads her work very well.
I'm currently reading Journey With No Maps - A Life of PK Page by Sandra Djwa (2012, McGill-Queen's University Press). It's clearly very meticulously researched and offers great insights into Page's life and works.
People don't like poems I don't why ... I don't know why ... No body commented I don't know why I don't know why ... Can anyone find the answer... Why people don't like poems... As I can't see any comments... Although there are many literates... I don't know...I don't why...!!!
Patricia Kathleen "P. K." Page, CC OBC FRSC (November 23, 1916 - January 14, 2010) was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography. By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet Earth" was read simultaneously in New York, the Antarctic, and the South Pacific to celebrate the International Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations.
We were delighted to have poet Leslie Greentree join us for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize festivities to read from the work of shortlisted poet Jennifer Maiden of Australia, who could not attend. We love Leslie's own poetry, too. Her collection go-go dancing for Elvis was shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Is your poem Greta about Mrs Douglas a teacher in the Causeway School which is now a resource educational centre for children to experience the 1950 and the Victorian age
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Back in 1996, I remember reading Rohrer's poem, "Found In The Museum Of Old Science," from his first book of poems. It is,by far, my favorite poem by the fellow poet. It was, and still is, pure magic to me.
This man stands in front of Shelley's brilliant light, looks at his own tiny shadow, and thinks it worth a poem. Then again, perhaps I missed something.
