Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology
    The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology
    The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology
    Ebook78 pages45 minutes

    The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology

    By Erín Moure

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The fifth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize, chosen by the jurors: UK poet Simon Armitage, Governor General's Award winner Erin Moure, and Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun.

    Royalties from the anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
    Release dateAug 5, 2005
    ISBN9781770891401
    The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology
    Author

    Erín Moure

    ERÍN MOURE is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

    Read more from Erín Moure

    Related to The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Taste of Prison

      Jun 1, 2022

      Taste of Prison
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Element of Silence: The Millions Interviews N. Scott Momaday

      Jul 20, 2022

      "Too many people just write down things in haste that look like poetry, but they’re not." The post The Element of Silence: The Millions Interviews N. Scott Momaday appeared first on The Millions.

      9 min read

    • Article

      Snow White Gets Dirty

      May 30, 2023

      Snow White Gets Dirty
      4 min read

    • Article

      Poetics Of Uncertainty

      May 1, 2022

      KATE A poem I keep returning to in your book [Path of Totality] is “Urine Season.” It ends with the lines: “Some will say this is not a poem for them. But I say it’s a poem for anyone who ever expected anything.” “Urine Season” is about the loss of y

      9 min read

    • Article

      Shape Of The Wound

      Mar 8, 2022

      BEFORE THE STORM, my children and I carried the potted plants indoors. We emptied the linen closet onto the floor and hauled the contents to the yard, where we wrapped the citrus trees in sheets and covered the cactus with a thin blanket. My husband

      6 min read

    • Article

      From ESTRANGEMENT

      May 1, 2022

      From ESTRANGEMENT
      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The American linden sways nonplussed by the storm,a bounce here, a shimmy there, just shaking like musicleft over from the night’s end wafting into the avenues before sleep.I remember once walking down Clinton Street, and singingthat line returning,

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Coffin Trees

      Mar 8, 2022

      WINTER RAIN in Taiwan’s mountains seems to hang in the air, getting into every seam of my clothes. The weather was warm when I left the city, but two thousand meters up, in the cloud forests near Alishan, I am shaking with cold. I was told the trail

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Bear God Revisited

      May 3, 2020

      The Bear God Revisited
      18 min read

    • Article

      Bright Passage

      Mar 8, 2022

      Bright Passage
      19 min read

    • Article

      It’s Come to This

      Sep 1, 2021

      It’s Come to This
      16 min read

    • Article

      What to Read Now

      Oct 12, 2022

      WHEN I was thirteen I acquired a magic notebook: a thick, blank sketchbook with richly textured, flecked paper of all different colors. Paging through it was like peering into a lush garden of unwritten delights, and my brain exploded with possibilit

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Constancy of Things

      Mar 1, 2022

      The first time Anna saw Salvatore, he asked if he could borrow her goggles. She was doing a few stretches on the pool deck, still wearing those goggles, when he approached. Something had fallen out of his swimsuit pocket, he said, and he needed to di

      24 min read

    • Article

      5 over 50

      Oct 10, 2018

      5 over 50
      12 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland’s Eastern Coast

      May 15, 2020

      Almost every day of her life, Petra went for a walk.  Walks up into the hills mostly, but also walks along the shore. Maybe walks along the relative flat of the unpaved road hemming the eastern fjords, but mostly walks with a vertical bent, a slope,

      7 min read

    • Article

      I Prefer Humans

      Mar 8, 2022

      I Prefer Humans
      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘Call yourself English?’

      Aug 21, 2019

      ‘Call yourself English?’
      19 min read

    • Article

      Pw.org

      Aug 18, 2021

      For updated information about more than 260 graduate programs in creative writing, including MA and PhD programs, visit our MFA Programs database, which includes details about funding, class size, and core faculty, as well as links to profiles of alu

      1 min read

    • Article

      On Bach

      Dec 1, 2022

      On Bach
      13 min read

    • Article

      Nature Isn’t Always Nice: On Megan Kaminski’s ‘Gentlewomen’

      Jun 25, 2021

      Kaminski’s poetic speakers take aim at patriarchal and humanistic hubris, the aggregating centuries during which men have bent both heaven and earth to their methods. The post Nature Isn’t Always Nice: On Megan Kaminski’s ‘Gentlewomen’ appeared first

      4 min read

    • Article

      Toward A Unified Theory

      Jan 1, 2022

      Condemned to live inside the weatherof our moods What are you doing? Filling this bucket with waterand dumping it into the water They can’t excavate the amphitheater further because it extends backbeneath the houses We close their eyes not for thembu

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Gathering In The Kitchen

      Dec 1, 2021

      A Gathering In The Kitchen
      13 min read

    • Article

      Rot

      Sep 2, 2022

      Rot
      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology - Erín Moure

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1