GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2006Canadian Shortlist Book: Little theatres
Poet: Erín Moure
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Click the book cover or title to purchase Little theatres online. Read an excerpt from Little theatres. Biography  Erín Moure is a poet and translator based in Montreal with 12 books of poetry to her credit. Her 2002 collection, O Cidadán was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person (2001), her translation from the Portuguese of Alberto Caiero/Fernando Pessoa’s O Guardador de Rebanhos, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. Both A Frame of the Book, also known as The Frame of a Book and Pillage Laud appeared in 1999. Search Procedures (1996) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Furious (1988) was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; and WSW (1989) received a QSPELL poetry prize. Little theatres (2005) won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language Poetry and is also shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Moure is currently writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, where she is working on a new book of poetry. Judges’ Citation “‘Poetry is doing nothing but using losing and refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns’ said Gertrude Stein. Each of these new poems of Moure’s is a ‘little theatre’ of noun, seizing it in the fact of its quotidian, and meeting it as fresh, necessary and incredulous utterance. If we say ‘water”, she shows in her limpid cadence, we must reinvent it, not excluding oil spills, endangered aquatic birds, millwheels and all the other economies that inflect perception. Here, poetry is urgently and simply our water, the other language that brings us, with Moure’s characteristically rigorous sensuality, a thinking adequate to the damages, and the delights, of the world. This book includes a useful dictionary that shows other words for electrical monopoly, spontaneous whoops in song, and thanking.” From
Aturuxos Calados | Regard a tree. Who would have better seized light’s longing? Longing a labour is first, is first. First the cold path of it. (Bring water.) Egregious is a few steps over wet stones ai ailala or you might miss it From Little theatres
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