The Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Anthology

By Michael Redhill

The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured annually with the Griffin Poetry Prize. The 2009 edition of the anthology includes poems from all the books to be shortlisted this year by judges Michael Redhill, Saskia Hamilton, and Dennis O'Driscoll. The poems in the anthology are selected and introduced by Redhill, the Canadian member of the jury.

Royalties from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Release date: Jun 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9781770891449

Michael Redhill

MICHAEL REDHILL is a fiction writer, playwright and poet, and the co-editor and former publisher of the literary magazine Brick. His first novel, Martin Sloane, a finalist for the Giller Prize, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. His novel Consolation received the Toronto Book Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was the winner of the Keep Toronto Reading “One Book” campaign. A father of two, Michael Redhill lives in Toronto. Saving Houdini is his first book for young readers.

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