Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's youngest and most lucrative poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin a wealthy owner of auto part manufacturing companies. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in English. Each winner receives $40 000 dollars.

2003

Canada:

• Winner:
  • Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot

• Other Nominees:
  • Dionne Brand, thirsty
  • P.K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New

International:

• Winner:
  • Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel

• Other NomineesL
  • Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
  • Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems
  • C.D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems

2002

Canada:

• Winner:
  • Christian Bök, Eunoia

• Other Nominees:
  • Eirin Moure, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
  • Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine

International:

• Winner:
  • Alice Notley, Disobedience

• Other Nominees:
  • Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
  • Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
  • Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

2001

Canada:

• Winner:
  • Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

• Other Nominees:
  • Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
  • Don McKay, Another Gravity

International:

• Winner:
  • Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

• Other Nominees:
  • Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
  • Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
  • Les Murray, Learning Human

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