http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog The Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$80,000 is an annual international and Canadian literary award for poetry written or translated into English. Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.1 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=63 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=63#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 15:16:44 +0000 Clayton Eshleman http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=63 As the translator scuttles back and forth between the original and the rendering, or engages in dialogue with a co-translator, a kind of “assimilative space” opens up, in which “influence” may be less contrived and literary than when drawing upon masters in one’s own language. Before considering why this may ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=63 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=61 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=61#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 19:46:35 +0000 Leslie Greentree http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=61 Check it out at: www.lesliegreentree.ca http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=61 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=60 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=60#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:54:17 +0000 Phil Hall http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=60   Here I mean to add to the important subjective poetics dialogue reinvigorated in recent years by Fanny Howe’s “Doubt” and Alice Notley’s “The Poetics of Disobedience”. Dubious: On Performance I am vanishing as I speak. Soon I’ll be long gone. I’ve cut the “lip” off my first name, dropped the ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=60 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=59 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=59#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:58:56 +0000 Phil Hall http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=59   A Ripple  At the fire tower on the Second Dome above Dawson at bright midnight solstice  (the Yukon widening around Tr’ondëk islands) mosquitoed cursive – eating rhubarb pie  at the top edge of the guide-bookish over into the uneven eventless mouth mine  Bill shy the fire ranger plays Scotland the Brave half-bore as best he is able ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=59 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=58 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=58#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:10:26 +0000 Phil Hall http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=58 Last year, April-May-June 2006, I was writer-in-residence at The Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. Ten years ago, Pierre Berton donated his birthplace as a writer’s residency. I was honoured to be there as the first writer who works exclusively in poetry. These linked poems approach a travel essay ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=58 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=51 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=51#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:19:17 +0000 Leslie Greentree http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=51 That's how CBC describes their Poetry Face-Off, although I must admit we were somewhat more civilized than that in Calgary on Thursday night. Because I won the Calgary Face-Off in 2004 with the poem "a fraud confessing" (not published anywhere other than on the CBC CD!) I was invited back ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=51 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=50 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=50#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0000 David Kirby http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=50 You Canadians who are sick and tired of all that cold weather are cordially invited to come on down and warm up by attending the National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and scheduled for the National Mall in Washington on September 24. Here's a list of authors: ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=50 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=49 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=49#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:59:58 +0000 David Kirby http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=49 The uses to which fiction writers put poetry has become an issue in recent days. In THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, David Orr writes about the way a character in Ian McEwan's SATURDAY uses Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" to disarm a criminal; the trick, Orr says, is that ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=49 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=46 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=46#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:07:16 +0000 Roo Borson http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=46 After more than a week of continuous smog advisories in Toronto, at last a massive storm with copious lightning and blinding sideways rain cleared the air. This took place during the time my flight was scheduled to depart for Dublin, giving me an extra three hours in the airport to ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=46 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=45 http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=45#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:55:12 +0000 Leslie Greentree http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/index.php?p=45 This will be my final blog from the UK, and be warned - it's going to be a long one! So many wonderful adventures, and I've been far too lazy (I should say busy - sightseeing, flirting with Blaine, and sampling the food and beverages) to write for a few ... http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=45