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Upgraded to Serious

Quick View {"id":7325024419899,"title":"Upgraded to Serious","handle":"upgraded-to-serious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNational Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being \"upgraded to serious\" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:20:21-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:20:21-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929685663803,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848414","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Upgraded to Serious","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1895,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848414","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979536216123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":648,"width":433,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954"},"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":648,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954","width":433}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNational Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being \"upgraded to serious\" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Directing Herbert White

Quick View {"id":7324955148347,"title":"Directing Herbert White","handle":"directing-herbert-white","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m a nocturnal creature,\u003cbr\u003eAnd I’m here to cheat time.\u003cbr\u003eYou can see time and exhaustion\u003cbr\u003eTaking pay from my face—\u003cbr\u003eIn fifty years\u003cbr\u003eMy sleep will be death,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll go like the rest,\u003cbr\u003eBut I’ll have played\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the games and all the roles.\u003cbr\u003e—from “Nocturnal”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco’s poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk’s lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” — Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural\/political activist\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T17:13:12-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T17:13:12-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929308241979,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770894570","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Directing Herbert White","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770894570","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24978917294139,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m a nocturnal creature,\u003cbr\u003eAnd I’m here to cheat time.\u003cbr\u003eYou can see time and exhaustion\u003cbr\u003eTaking pay from my face—\u003cbr\u003eIn fifty years\u003cbr\u003eMy sleep will be death,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll go like the rest,\u003cbr\u003eBut I’ll have played\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the games and all the roles.\u003cbr\u003e—from “Nocturnal”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco’s poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk’s lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” — Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural\/political activist\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Quick View {"id":7324952854587,"title":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Anthology","handle":"the-griffin-poetry-prize-2001-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 2001, the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in English in 2000 was awarded to two poets: one Canadian and one international poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Griffin Prize Anthology includes selections from the remarkable shortlisted books chosen by jurors Carolyn Forche, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The selections are from the winning translation by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, Canadian winner Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours, the translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld of Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open, Fanny Howe's Selected Poems, Les Murray's Learning Human: Selected Poems, Robert Bringhurst's translation of Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas's Nine Visits to the Mythworld, and Don McKay's Another Gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful selection of these seven extraordinary collections, chosen by poet Esta Spalding, is both a celebration of these formidable poets and this prestigious new prize in one volume. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:51:55-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:51:56-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929291104315,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846724","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Anthology","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1695,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846724","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 2001, the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in English in 2000 was awarded to two poets: one Canadian and one international poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Griffin Prize Anthology includes selections from the remarkable shortlisted books chosen by jurors Carolyn Forche, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The selections are from the winning translation by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, Canadian winner Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours, the translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld of Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open, Fanny Howe's Selected Poems, Les Murray's Learning Human: Selected Poems, Robert Bringhurst's translation of Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas's Nine Visits to the Mythworld, and Don McKay's Another Gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful selection of these seven extraordinary collections, chosen by poet Esta Spalding, is both a celebration of these formidable poets and this prestigious new prize in one volume. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Quick View {"id":7324951150651,"title":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 Anthology","handle":"the-griffin-poetry-prize-2003-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most prestigious literary prizes. The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2003 Shortlist includes poems from the seven exceptional books shortlisted for the 2003 prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelections include poems from Kathleen Jamie's Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-1994; Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel; Gerald Stern's American Sonnets: Poems; C. D. Wright's Steal Away: Selected and New Poems; Margaret Avison's Concrete and Wild Carrot; Dionne Brand's thirsty; and P. K. Page's Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New. Prize jurors Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, and Sharon Thesen chose the outstanding shortlist and wrote the citations that proceed each selection. Thesen chose the poems that appear in the anthology and wrote the introduction to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:45:41-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:45:41-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929280225339,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846878","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 Anthology","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1695,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846878","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most prestigious literary prizes. The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2003 Shortlist includes poems from the seven exceptional books shortlisted for the 2003 prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelections include poems from Kathleen Jamie's Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-1994; Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel; Gerald Stern's American Sonnets: Poems; C. D. Wright's Steal Away: Selected and New Poems; Margaret Avison's Concrete and Wild Carrot; Dionne Brand's thirsty; and P. K. Page's Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New. Prize jurors Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, and Sharon Thesen chose the outstanding shortlist and wrote the citations that proceed each selection. Thesen chose the poems that appear in the anthology and wrote the introduction to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Quick View {"id":7324950331451,"title":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology","handle":"the-griffin-poetry-prize-2004-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:39:23-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:39:24-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929275441211,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846991","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1695,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846991","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Quick View {"id":7324949577787,"title":"The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2016-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Adam Sol’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Norman Dubie’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Copper Canyon Press), Joy Harjo’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConflict Resolution for Holy Beings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), Don Paterson’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e40 Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Faber and Faber), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The selections from the Canadian shortlist include poems from Per Brask and Patrick Friesen’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrayed Opus for Strings \u0026amp; Wind Instruments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Brick Books), translated from the Danish written by Ulrikka S. Gernes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Liz Howard (McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTell: poems for a girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Soraya Peerbaye (Pedlar Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 12, 2016\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 1, 2016\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 2, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:25:51-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:25:51-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41929266167867,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781487000875","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":249,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781487000875","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Adam Sol’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Norman Dubie’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Copper Canyon Press), Joy Harjo’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConflict Resolution for Holy Beings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), Don Paterson’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e40 Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Faber and Faber), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The selections from the Canadian shortlist include poems from Per Brask and Patrick Friesen’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrayed Opus for Strings \u0026amp; Wind Instruments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Brick Books), translated from the Danish written by Ulrikka S. Gernes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Liz Howard (McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTell: poems for a girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Soraya Peerbaye (Pedlar Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 12, 2016\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 1, 2016\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 2, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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Quick View {"id":7324948987963,"title":"The 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2015-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn choosing the 2015 shortlist, prize jurors Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe, and Piotr Sommer will consider hundreds of collections published in 2014. 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Cover: Marcel with a Splash, by Julia Sørensen and translated by Shelley Tanaka. The illustration is created with colored pencils. A sleeping baby with light skin tone, wearing a yellow onesie, lies at the bottom of the page. The top of the page features a textured blue background with chromosomes stamped repeatedly overtop of the blue. Each chromosome is represented by two parallel black lines. One chromosome has three lines.

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Marcel was born with webbed toes and an extra chromosome in this tender exploration of a child’s life with Down syndrome.

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