Last night in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize was awarded to Ken Babstock (Canadian winner) for Methodist Hatchet, published by House of Anansi and David Harsent (International winner) for Night, published by Faber and Faber. Each author receives a $65,000 prize purse.
The remaining finalists were:
Phil Hall for Killdeer, published by BookThug
Jan Zwicky for Forge, published by Gaspereau Press
Yusef Komunyakaa for The Chameleon Couch, published by Farrar Straus and Giroux
Sean O?Brien for November, published by Picador
Joanna Trzeciak for translation of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz by Tadeusz Rózewicz, published by W.W. Norton & Company
The Griffin Poetry Prize was founded in 2000 to serve and encourage excellence in poetry. The prize is for first edition books of poetry written in, or translated into, English and submitted from anywhere in the world. For more information, please visit their website.
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