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Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson Wins Lowther and Lampert Prizes
The Canadian Press reports that Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson have won the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards.
Boyd was the winner of the $1,000 Lampert award for his book "Making Bones Walk" (Luna Publications), which the judges said was "rich with innovative language and Boyd's very original way of looking at the world."
The Lampert award recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the preceding year. Lampert was an arts administrator who organized authors' tours and took an interest in the work of new writers.
Simpson won the $1,000 Lowther award for "Quick" (McClelland & Stewart). The judges said her poems have "extraordinary range, intelligence and empathy."
The awards were announced at the League of Canadian Poets annual conference. You can find background about Pat Lowther here. Information about the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award can be found here.
Posted on June 23, 2008
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Blaser and Ashbery Win Griffin Poetry Prize
The winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize have been announced. The C$100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize is the richest poetry prize in the world for a single volume of poetry. The prize money is divided among the two winners. 83-year-old Robin Blaser was the Canadian winner for his collection, The Holy Forest: Collected Poems. New York's John Ashbery won the international prize for Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. The National Post reports that Blaser said, "Vive la poesie. Long live poetry." as he took the podium.
"Life is full of surprises, isn't it?" said Blaser as he took the podium. "Vive la poesie. Long live poetry."
The prize was founded in 2000, and is awarded to two books of poetry - including translations - published in English the previous year. The two other finalists on the Canadian shortlist were David W. McFadden for Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden; Erin Moure and Robert Majzels for translating Nicole Brossard's Notebook of Roses and Civilization. The three other finalists on the International shortlist were Elaine Equi for Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems; David Harsent for Selected Poems 1969-2005; Clayton Eshleman, translator of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo.
This year's jury was comprised of Vanouver writer George Bowering, New York-by-way-of-London writer James Lasdun, and Mexican poet Pura Lopez Colome. The judges read over 500 books from 31 countries before deciding the finalists.
You can read more about the prize on the website at griffinpoetryprize.com.
Posted on June 5, 2008
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Poets Feel Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina has clearly touched a chord in the poets. A new blog features poems "written by, for and about those affected by Hurricane Katrina." The site is accepting poems and related photographs.
Posted on September 15, 2005
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