Annal:2001 Griffin Poetry Prize – Canadian
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Results of the Griffin Poetry Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- Griffin Poetry Prize
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- 2001 Griffin Canadian winner
- 2000 LATimes–Poetry finalist
- 2000 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 22.51
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red (“A spellbinding achievement” —Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson’s signature mixture of opposites—the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides…
Another Gravity: Poems
- 2001 Griffin Canadian shortlist
- Score: 6.51
This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises “the dark art of reflection”—which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon—as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.
Robert Bringhurst, Gandl of the Qayahl Llaanas
- 2001 Griffin Canadian shortlist
- Score: 6.51
The nine stories contained in this volume are the finest offerings from one of the last of the traditional Haida storytellers, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. Ghandl was born in 1851 in a small Haida island community off the coast of British Columbia. His world was devastated by waves of European diseases, which wiped out over ninety percent of the Haidas and robbed him of his sight. He became a skilled listener, taking in the myths, legends, and everyday stories of his people. Creatively adapting them, the blind storyteller became a master of his craft. In 1900…
