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 automotive part manufacturer. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in the English language. Each winner receives CAD$50,000.

Trustees

• Scott Griffin
• Margaret Atwood
• Carolyn Forché
• Robert Hass
• Michael Ondaatje
• Robin Robertson
• David Young

2001

Canada:

• Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
• Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
• Don McKay, Another Gravity

International:

• Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh , translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
• Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld , translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
• Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
• Les Murray, Learning Human

Judges:

• Carolyn Forché
• Dennis Lee
• Paul Muldoon

2002

Canada:

• Christian Bök, Eunoia
• Erin Moure, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
• Karen Solie , Short Haul Engine

International:

• Alice Notley , Disobedience
• Victor Hernández Cruz , Maraca
• Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
• Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

Judges:

• Dionne Brand
• Robert Creeley
• Michael Hofmann

2003

Canada:

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

International:

• Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel
• 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

Judges:

• Michael Longley
• Sharon Olds
• Sharon Thesen

2004

Canada:

• Anne Simpson , Loop
• Di Brandt, Now You Care
• Leslie Greentree , Go-go Dancing for Elvis

International:

• August Kleinzahler , The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
• Suji Kwock Kim , Notes From the Divided Country
• David Kirby , The Ha-Ha
• Louis Simpson , The Owner of the House

Judges:

• Billy Collins
• Bill Manhire
• Phyllis Webb

2005

Canada:

• Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
• George Bowering, Changing on the Fly
• Don McKay, Camber

International:

• Fanny Howe, On the Ground
• Michael Symmons Roberts , Corpus
• Matthew Rohrer , A Green Light
• Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963-2003

Judges:

• Simon Armitage
• Erin Mouré
• Tomaz Šalamun

External link

• Official website