Dionne Brand, Eve Joseph and Sarah Tolmie shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize GlobeArts
The Canadian shortlist of three nominees includes Dionne Brand, a past winner of both a Governor-General’s Award and a Griffin . This time around, the Trinidad-born, former Toronto Poet Laureate is nominated for, a contentious discussion between the poet and the titular keeper of the poet’s pages, using a series of prose poems that invoke everyone from American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
In their citation, the Griffin jury described the McClelland & Stewart title as a book-length meditation on history, politics, race and gender that is “expansive, beautifully written, structurally compelling, and above all moving.”Also on the Canadian shortlist is British Columbia’s Eve Joseph, nominated for, which the jury applauded as a “delightful” collection of prose poems.
The third nominee for the Canadian half of the Griffin is Sarah Tolmie, an associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo and medievalist trained at the University of Toronto and University of Cambridge. Described as a modern, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, was praised by the jury as a “multifaceted meditation on mortality beneath its deceptively simple lyric surface.
Given that the Griffins were first handed out in 2001, neither Parker nor Smith were ever eligible the prize. Past Canadian winners include Anne Carson , Christian Bök, Karen Solie and, last year, Cree academic and writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, for his part-manifesto and part-memoir,Among the previous international winners are Alice Notley, Charles Wright, Michael Longley and Alice Oswald.
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