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Description
The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most prestigious literary awards.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2007 Shortlist includes poems from the exceptional books shortlisted by jurors John Burnside, Charles Simic, and Karen Solie for this year's two $50,000 awards. The poems in the 2007 anthology are selected and introduced by Solie, the Canadian member of the jury.
Royalties from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.
Contributor Notes
Karen Solie's first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit Award, and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second collection, Modern and Normal, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award for Poetry. Her third collection, Pigeon, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Solie is a native of Saskatchewan and now lives in Toronto.
