SUE GOYETTE lives in Halifax and has published five books of poetry
and a novel. Her latest collection is The Brief Reincarnation of a
Girl. She’s been nominated for several awards, including the 2014
Griffin Poetry Prize, and has won the CBC Literary Prize for
Poetry, the Bliss Carman, Pat Lowther, and J. M. Abraham Poetry
Awards, as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Masterworks Arts Award for her collection, Ocean. Sue currently
teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie
University.
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.
The world’s premier international poetry prize.
*Maclean’s*
The Griffin Poetry Prize is a rich tribute to an art form largely
and stupidly ignored by the public . . . an annual report on the
state of the poetry nation.
*Globe and Mail*
Already of the first calibre — a great shortlist, great judges,
great trustees, great intent.
*National Post*
The Olympics of poetry.
*Toronto Life*
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