TORONTO — Some of the biggest names in Canadian literature will come together tonight to see which two writers will win the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize. Two poets — one Canadian, one international — will take home $65,000 apiece at the Griffin gala in Toronto’s Distillery District. Former Toronto poet laureate Dionne Brand, a previous Griffin winner, could secure the honour a second time for “The Blue Clerk,” published by McClelland & Stewart. The other Canadian contenders are Victoria’s Eve Joseph for the prose-poems in “Quarrels” (Anvil Press) and University of Waterloo professor Sarah Tolmie’s “The Art of Dying” (McGill-Queen’s University Press). The prize is billed as the world’s largest for a first-edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English.

Source: National Post June 06, 2019 07:52 UTC